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NEWIUUSWAEllNo. 301 (NEW SERIES) EVERY FRIDAY PRICE 6d. OCTOBER 17, 1952

TOP LEFT: A happy dressing -roomshot shows four of the bandleaderswho provided 4,000 fans with the mostexciting concert of the year at lastSunday's Jazz Jamboree. L. to r.Humphrey Lyttelton, Harry (" Dr.Crock ") Hines, Jack Parnell and Ray

Ellington.CENTRE LEFT : Ciro's Club band-leader Sidney Simone (left) is indistinguished company in this photo-graph, taken at an inauguration partyfor a big Gala Night at the Cafe deParis in aid of the Actors' Orphanageon November 9. Noel Coward is in thecentre, and the group is completed by

the one and only Charles Chaplin.

TOP RIGHT: An inter-esting angle on the femi-nine angle in dance music-so much nicer than look-ing at a pair of dress -trousers ! Gracie Cole (ontrumpet) rehearses hernew All -Girls' Band.CENTRE RIGHT : Inter-mission at the Jazz Jam-boree and our guests, CabCalloway and HowardRoberts, are swamped byenthusiastic autograph -hunters. Both Cab andHoward are starring in

" Porgy and Bess."LEFT: Backstage tune-up.Freddy Randall does hisbest to give JimmyEdwards the "A" andJimmy Edwards' resultantsour note on euphoniumis, he says, " good enough

for jazz"!

2 THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS

The Show BandOF course the BBC Show

Band doesn't possess, asyet, the precision of Heath, thepolish of Geraldo, etc., etc. Thequalities which the variousorchestras quoted possess havenot been acquired overnight.

Give Cyril Stapleton and hisboys a chance to settle downand get used to their new role,and these desirable qualitieswill appear. The material isthere, for the most part, to weldinto a really fine orchestra.

Right now, Mr. Bentley andhis fellow -critics have no moreright to expect perfection thanI have to expect Ralph Burns'tone -colours and more scope forthe instrumentalists.

Finally, congratulations toall concerned, and especiallyTommy Whittle for a crackingperformance of " This Can't BeLove."

WILLIAM KEMP.Wharf Lane, Chesterfield.

The Ladies AgainTN answer to the latest epistle1- from Mr. May, we wouldlike to state that his vitupera-tion leaves us bloody but un-bowed (quite apart from theobvious fact that it is a woman'sprerogative to have the lastword).

We would contend that Mr.May is talking through his hatwhen he makes the outrageousstatement that there has neverbeen a record made showing thetrue value of jazz.

This reduces thewhole thing to thelevel of farce, as itwould, appear fromthis that the vastmajority of jazz -lovers both in theUSA and in GreatBritain have beensuffering under adelusion, listeningonly to second-ratejazz on records, someof which accordingto the critics Mr.May so admires, aremasterpieces.

It is somewhatstrange, therefore,that names such asBeiderbecke andJelly Roll have con-tinued to live ; nodoubt Mr. May'shumble ears haveheard them, too, andconsider their recordsmediocre.

'Raw Deal'IAM

far from being an experton music of any kind, so I

will not argue on the merits ofthe BBC Show Band, althoughI thought they played the epi-tome of good music for theeveryman.

However, my sphere is thatof comedy-the element that isso evidently lacking in theshow for how can it be calleda " Show " without a propershare of comedy ?

I have seen Mr. Stennett per-form several times prior to hisappointment as residentcomedian, and I think he hasbeen dealt a raw deal. Rightoff the bottom. He is a fineartist who can draw a laughfrom reading a telephone book.He has a large repertoire ofjokes and voices and hasalready given evidence on theair of being a better -than -average impressionist.

MARRYING TIME !(LEFT) : Trumpet notability Dave Wilkins, now with FrankKing's Band at the Hollywood Club, London, W,photographed after his wedding in Holland last week toWilhelmina De Kater, a Dutch lady whom he first met whenhe was playing in Holland with Cab Quaye's Band. Thewedding took place at the Amsterdam City Hall. (RIGHT) :Ivy Benson is all smiles at last Saturday's wedding atCaxton Hall when her bassist, Joan Marriott, was weddedto another bass-player-Joe Wilson, with Peter Legh's Band

at the Regent Palace Hotel, London. Peter is on right.

Regarding the critics (count-less, and whose knowledgeleaves so little to be desired)we would like to say in thewords of Oscar Wilde " Oneshould, of course, have no preju-dices, but it is one's business insuch matters to have prefer-ences, and when one has prefer-ences one ceases to be fair."

We still do not revoke ouropinion that the handful ofAmerican musicians playingtrue jazz are equalled by Britishmusicians playing in a similaridiom.

JOAN LEVY.BRENDA ROSE.

Deansgate, Manchester, 3.

Praise for JoBEINGn one of the lucky ones

to hear Jo Searle sing, Iheartily agree she must not beoverlooked, as stated by CharlesGoodman in last week's issueof the NME.

Jo's personality and origin-ality at Colchester and Felix-stowe where I heard her sing,certainly left their mark.

Here's looking forward toanother treat, Jo.

JOAN BISHOP.Crouch Street, Colchester.

CAMPBELL CONNFLL,

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Campbell Connelly 8LTD..10, DENMARK STREET, LONDON, W.C.2. TEM. BAR 1653

Why, then, does producerJohnnie Stewart tie him downto one three -minute spot thatmust include a song ? He isbilled as a comedian, and assuch can be first-rate. But theBBC are trying to make asecond-rate musician out ofhim.

He was chosen, so I am in-formed, because he is a musi-cian with a turn for comedy,instead of the usual comedianwith a turn for music. Whata load of rot ! This view of himwas based on the fact that heaccompanies himself on theguitar, and that as a trumpeterhe comes into the same classas Harry James' six -year -oldson ! Of course, he has a sing-ing voice, but not one thatwould cause much worry to LeeLawrence, or any of the othersingers in the programme.

Jle is first and foremost acomedian, and I hope someonewill tell that to JohnnieStewart or Jim Davidson, orwhoever else it is that is bog-ging him down to such materialthat must leave him wide opento the kind of criticism he re-ceived in your columns lastweek.

Give Stan Stennett the free-dom and scope to choose hisown type of material and I'msure that we will have bettercomedy and as a result, a bet-ter show.

BERNARD ROSS.Berwin House,

Stamford Hill, N.16.

Cotton or Roy ?THE Comedy of Cotton ?

Radio reviewer JackBentley in his summing-up ofthe BBC Show Band's threeinitial broadcasts last week,gives the highest examples ofthe top name bands' character-istics in quoting " The pre-cision of Heath. The polish ofGeraldo. The beat of Parnell.The efficiency of Black. Theappeal of Ambrose. The popu-larity of Stapleton the first."

But surely he has given littlethought in including in such alist the "comedy of Cotton " ?I would have said at once, the" comedy of Roy."

I seldom miss the Sundaylunch-time radio band spot, andfeel I must remind Mr. Bentleyof the splendid band bothmusically and entertaininglythat Harry Roy has been fea-turing each week duringCotton's recent three months'rest from this spot.

TTERSAlthough only one comedy

number was included eachweek, items such as " The SheikOf Araby," " He Played HisClarinet as the Ship WentDown," " Music, Maestro,Please" to mention only three,were brilliantly put over andextremely funny indeed, unlikethe noisy shouting and so-calledhumour of the Cotton Band,which seems to hold sway inalmost every number in thisband's performance.

To sum up, I fail to see anycomparison between the slick,

polished, well-timed comedyof the comedy numbers of theRoy Band and the extended, butnot funny, humour of Cotton.

I would therefore say " TheComedy of Roy " and may add,here's looking forward to theHarry Roy Band's return tothis radio spot which theyfilled so well in what is sup-posed to be a " suit all ages "variety band show offering.

TOMMY RUFF.

Brookhouse Road, Walsall.

KoreaHERE we go again ! Someone

always mentions lack ofentertainment for troops, andI have to write my " bug -letter."

When the Korean fightingfirst started, and we and ourgallant allies rushed to the de-fence of democracy, in adesire to entertain the poorhuman currency that was beingused in this political circus, Ioffered to go to Korea.

A columnist in one of theleading Sunday papers did anarticle about entertainers hav-ing cold feet where dangerspots were concerned. Thissparked us off.

At the time I was leading ajumping small group, whichwas well -received at Americanbases. We did one-night standsat big North-west ballroomsand stints in Variety. To showwe were genuine, and to putthe columnist and War Officeon the spot, we offered to go fora soldier's pay. We contactedour MP, wrote dozens of letters.but the War Office, when theydeigned to send us an unsignedreply, just didn't want to knowabout anything but top -linestars.

We haven't heard of the col-umnist since. Maybe he went toKorea.

Facts can be checked withK.R. Promotions. Liverpool(Joe McNerny) who was hand-ling the group at the time.

ROSS MACMANUSHaslemere Road, Bexleyheath.

TN the NME (October 3,-11- 1952) I saw a letter of appre-ciation in regard to JackBarnes and his Music, who playat the Ritz Ballroom, Wey-mouth,

While stationed at RAF,Radipole Lane, I had many op-portunities of visiting Wey-mouth and had been at theafdrementioned camp about amonth before I found Jack andthe boys.

I couldn't believe any greatmusic would be played out oftown without it coming to the

notice of either of our leadingmusical papers, so I thoughtthat Weymouth, as far as jazzand I were concerned, wasdead, until I finally went to theRitz. After that, I was downthere two or three times a week.I hope the boys remember me,as we had a few good timesdown there !

If I remember rightly, RonniePipe did a lot of arranging be-tween tunes for them. A goodpianist and very modern. So,maybe they were some of hisold arrangements Brian Glad -well was listening to. I wonderif Ron is still there, because Ihave seen a Ron Pipe (piano)in the Nat Allen line-up - Ithink it is !

The tenor BG raves aboutalso plays a very De Franco-ishclarinet. That is if it is thesame guy !

Well, that's all sir, thanks forlistening and give my love toTony Hall and tell him from meto keep up the good work, as itis the only thing to give me anysort of kicks out here.

4031880 AC SMITHRAF, Cluntoe, nr. Ardboe,.

Dungannon, Co. Tyrone.

GUY MITCHELL WRITES

TO RALPH SHARONHiya, Ralph,

How is everything goingover your way? Every-thing here is going fine.Today has been a some-what blue day for me,having sat in a dentist'schair for two hours, butnow I feel better-thereason being, as soon as Ientered the Santly JoyOffice, they showed meyou, review of "Feet Up."

Well, all I can say isthank you for all of us. Iappreciate it very much. Ihope we'll meet againsoon, then I'll thank youin person.

Sincerely,GUY MITCHELL

1619 Broadway,New York, 19.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1952 3

LATEST news from the Palladium concerns thereplacement for star drummer George Fierstone,

due to leave in the near future.Les Lambert, the band's manager, tells me he

has signed up Len Johnson, who has, for severalyears, done an excellent job with Stanley Black'sBBC outfit, and that he will be starting in aboutsix weeks' time.

MET U.S. trumpet man Howard Roberts, overhere in the " Porgy and Bess " show. Howard

was attending a rehearsal of the BBC Show Band,for whom he may be turning in an arrangement ortwo.

He is a further example that it is not necessaryto wear loud " clobber" or cut comic capers tosucceed in the world of jazz. This quietly dressedand softly spoken American, who has played leadtrumpet with the Lionel Hampton and LuckyMillinder Bands, takes his life and his music veryseriously.

He now specialises in writing for male voicechoir, and this should be quite interesting to ShowBand producer Johnny Stewart, I should imagine.

* *

SEENhopping around the studios with a heavily

bandaged ankle, popular singer Diana Coup -land, who unfortunately slipped down just onestep and sprained her ankle, while in Cardiff.

Hard luck, Diana-hate to think how much cot-ton wool and bandage would be needed had youslipped down the whole flight!

WITH the start of the ice hockey season, popularStreatham team attract name jazzmen to their

league matcheS, which take place on Wednesdayevenings.

For their last home game I spotted saxmen BillGriffiths and Jack Goddard, bass Tim Bell, andtrombonists Ken Goldie and Jackie Armstrong. Theboys tell me it's great relaxation after a tough dayin the studios.

* * *STORY

concerning well-known West End "fac-totum " came to light this week. Apparently

he had a very good bandleader friend who, withhis band, was comfortably installed in a swankWest End restaurant.

The two friends met, and during conversation the" factotum " offered his friend a more lucrativeengagement, stating he was in a position to arrangean audition. To this the unsuspecting bandleaderagreed, and in due course an audition wasarranged.

Whilst it was on, the " friendly factotum " visitedthe management of the restaurant where the audi-tioning band was currently appearing, told themthat their "golden boy" MD was at that verymoment auditioning for a rival concern, and offeredto replace the band with an equally good outfit forless money!

Fortunately, the trusting bandleader passed theaudition and landed the new contract ...

ingout

Mike Daniels, leader ofthe Delta Jazzmen, ishere seen with his 193141 -litre Invicta, whichhas six cylinders andtwelve sparking plugsin all, as well as a crashgearbox and foot andhand throttles. Mikedescribes the top speedas 100 plus, with a cruis-

speed of 85 mph. He is scared to workthe fuel consumption, but believes it to

be about 10 mpg.:

YET a further change in the trombone depart-ment of Lew Stone's Pigalle Restaurant Band.

Jack Irving, who only a few weeks ago replacedJimmy Wilson, finds that owing to his many earlymorning calls, the late hours of the Pigalle do notagree with him, and, consequently, he and Lewhave decided to part.

Adept as Lew is at finding suitable replacementsat short notice, he has already signed up West Endnotability George Rowe, who was with the Sky-rockets at the Palladium for several years.

Ti CAME upon Paul Carpenter (Jeff Arnold of"Riders of the Range ") at the wheel of the

most expensive -looking automobile I've seen forsome time.

Knowing Paul not to be the kind to splash thatkind of " loot " on a car, I asked him how come?M. C. definitely confirmed the auto to be his-infact it was a gift from an admirer !

Lucky Paul! Oh, to have that kind of personality!* * *

DURING a conversation with Les Maddox, vio-linist with the Stanley Black BBC outfit, we

discussed the band's coming break-up. I asked Leshis future plans, to which he replied that hecouldn't afford to be out of work for long as hehad a wife and two bookies to keep !

SECOND week in the life of the Show Band, andgeneral comments seem to indicate an upward

surge in the quality of the arrangements playedby the band. Could be the new recruits-BruceCampbell, Alan Bristowe, Eric Jupp and MalcolmLockyer-to the arranging staff have had somethingto do with it.

Last Saturday the Band was called for 6.30 p.m.,rehearsed fourteen new numbers and were on theair at 10.15 p.m. A tough assignment for a newban', I would say.

Latest "Ammy " : It has been noticed at theAmbrose broadcast rehearsals that Bert, whohas used drummer Micky Grieve on his sessionsfor some years, and knows his name as well ashis own, suddenly and persistently now refers toMicky as " Stewart." Strange ...

AS a relaxation and, presumably, to counteractthe more serious responsibilities of parenthood,

popular tenor star Tommy Whittle is studying tolearn the "Redowa."

Look it up in the dictionary-I had to!

FUNNY story this week concerns Mac Minshull,trombonist with Jack Parnell's Band, who re-

cently had the misfortune to lose his instrument.Mac filled in the usual form at the Lost Property

" If they write good about you, that's good !It they write bad about you, that's good !If they don't write about you-that's BAD !"

by THE SLIDER 9

place, and where it said " description of shape ofmissing article," he filled in the word " weird."

Back came the form saying this was not an ade-quate description and would he please elaborate.Mac's sense of humour came to his rescue, and hereturned the form, filled in this time thus-"Atrombone -shaped trombone "!

GERALDO'S d rummer, Eric Delaney, is findinghis time very full right now, with the launching

of his drum school at his home. With Eric isCharlie Botterill, who teaches all tune percussion,and Maurice Throssell, handling drum transcrip-tions, which include some excellent Buddy Richsolos.

Charlie is a member of three American associa-tions-the National Association of RudimentalDrummers, All American Drummer Assn., and theInternational Association of Modern Drummers, ofwhich he has been a member since 1948.

* * *TACK HYLTON'S new show, which features the

Crazy Gang, moves off to Oxford on the 27th,for two weeks prior to returning to Victoria Palace.

WHEN Harry Letham left Sidney Lipton's Bandat Grosvenor House, Sidney cast around for a

replacement, and of all things has fixed Harry'syounger brother George, who is now a regularmember of the Grosvenor House brass section.

* * *CONGRATULATIONS to top drummer Jock

Cummings on his appointment as percussionistin the BBC Show Band.

This likeable personality will undoubtedly addto the already well star-studded outfit under CyrilStapleton.

BOUQUET to C anadian reed specialist Bob Burns,who, in the absence of Frank Reidy, stepped

into the Ambrose line-up last Friday evening.Bob handled the tenor, clarinet and bass clarinet

parts, and with minimum rehearsal time available,gave a faultless performance.

THE many friends of popular Skyrocket trom-bonist Jimmy Wilson will be sorry to hear that

he is now in All Saints Hospital, near WestminsterBridge, for observation of an internal complaint.

Jim has worked in name bands for some tenyears now, this being the first time he has beenunable to fulfil an engagement through ill -health,thought to have been brought on by strain ofexcess work-and, I suspect, too much golf!

Over the phone Jimmy told me he wasn't feel-ing too bad, and would be pleased to hear from.or to see, any friends in the business who care tolook him up at his present address, which I trusthe will not be using for very long.

Mystery Dept: Although billed in "Radio Times"last Wednesday to appear on Geraldo's Tip TopTunes, Jill Day made no vocal contribution to theprogramme. Instead listeners heard the ex-Geraldo singer Eve Boswell.

Strange that Gerry made no reference to thischange in vocalists at all-particularly as,'aelieve, Jill was not indisposed.

JAMBOREE HIGHLIGHTS-Jimmy Walker (right) Personality-saxist Carl Barriteau, with his vocalist The never -failing showstopper in the Jack Parnellwith his vocalist Michael Lawrence and other mem- Mae Cooper, finish off a number in gay style while stage presentation is seen here from the wings-bars of his group get ready in the dressing -room the huge Jamboree crowd goes wild, as the Show Jack and Phil Seaman in their terrific double -

at last Sunday's great Jazz Jamboree. of the Year gets going. drumming presentation.

4 ISE NM MUSICAL gXPIIESS

160 0 N G the weepingwailing and gnashing

of teeth of today's vocalcontortionists, you will finda boy who does none ofthese things, yet has man-aged to make more of adent in the " best selling "and " most played " listen-ings than anyone else thisyear.

Currently riding high in hisown country with " Wish YouWere Here " and " Outside OfHeaven " Eddie Fisher also hasa British hit on his hands inthe shape of " Lady Of Spain "(probably partly inspired bythe current visit to the Statesof the composer, TolchardEvans). All three of themfigure in this week's U.S. hit -charts.

Both in this country and overthere, " I'm Yours," " Trust InMe," " Forgive Me," " Tell MeWhy " and " Anytime " are stillfresh in the public memory. Inbrief, Billboard Magazine's" Best New Singer Of 1950 " hasbecome Victor Records' mostvaluable property in 1952.

Cantor FindTwenty-two year old Eddie

skyrocketed into prominenceunder the sponsorship of EddieCantor, the veteran comedian,who heard him at a night cluband immediately asked him tojoin his troupe.

He had formerly used hisvoice shouting the wares ofFisher Snr.'s vegetable truck

through the streets of Phila-delphia, but even before that,'while still at school, Eddie wassinging for local radio stations.He had, in fact, four regularairshots a week which nettedhim a total of-£.5 !

Moving back through severalmore years, we'find a 7 -year -oldEddie Fisher winning amateurcontests. At that age he hadthe singular distinction ofcoming first in one competitionagainst the combined attrac-tions of twelve girls. " rthink I

A SOLDIERWITH A

SONGThe story of Eddie Fisher,

the khaki -clad lad with

a voice of velvet

by MIKE BUTCHERwon," he remembers, " becauseI was the only boy and rwassmall."

'Cheit-Beater'Nevertheless, Eddie's victories

continued as time went by,until an important one reallygot him started on his climb upthe ladder of fame. This was onArthur Godfrey's vastly popu-lar Talent Scouts radio pro-gramme, and from here it wasa short step to the vocal spot

with Charlie Ventura's Band.At the age of eighteen, Eddie

auditioned for a solo spot atthe world -lamed CopacabanaClub, and was accepted. On hisopening night he walked out ofthe Copa after the first show,blithely forgetting that therewas a second performance tofollow two hours later.

A sudden mental click lefthim panic-stricken, but throughthe audacity of a recklesscabby he was able to get backjust in time for his number.

After that, he realised thatthere was a lot of sense in hav-ing a personal Manager. . . .

The first Fisher recordings onVictor (HMV for most of theworld) did not cause much ofa stir, but after a year withthe company his version of" Thinking Of You " reallycaught on.

Next came " Unless " and" You Love Me," and it wasobvious that the clear -voicedtenor was not just a flash in thepan, from the phonographicpoint of view at least.

Not that the critics have beenunanimous in their praise." Metronome's " George T.Simon has frequently depre-cated Eddie's " chest -beatingnoises " and his colleague, BarryUlanov, is equally distressed bythe singer's apparent inabilityto hit every note right on thenose.

Call -UpOn the other hand, Marie

Mesmer of the " Los AngelesDaily News " enthuses thatFisher has a terrific voice. Infact, it is surprising how muchvoice comes out of this slightlybuilt, boyish -looking singer. Hesings with a maturity quite be-yond his years.

So where are we?During 1951, Eddie's meteoric

rise to the top was slightlyslowed down with his call pupfor compulsory GI service. But" slightly " is the operativeword, for it is the shellac hehas cut while on leave that isstrengthening his pull evermore as the months go by.

A MODERN METHOD FORSAX -PLAYERS

" The Saxophone . . . a ModernMethod," by Don Barrigo

(Lafleur)T ET me say, at the first, that'this is a beautifully producedbook. No expense has beenspared in the making; thequality of paper and printiois excellent, the layout v -ffygood, and the fingering chart(size 22 in. by 34 in.) is madeup of first-class photos of theinstrument.

Don Barrigo is a tenor saxplayer of fine repute and ofmany years' experience in top-flight dance bands. In spite ofhis exotic -sounding name, he isEnglish, and served with theBritish Army during the War.

UP-TO-DATEIn 1947, I think it was, he

emigrated to South Africa, andfor this reason, his name maynot be familiar to the youngergeneration of musicians.

However, the student may beassured that Don's outlook was,and is, up to date and progress-sive.

This book is so comprehensiveand detailed that I feel it musthave taken many months (per-haps years) to write and toedit.

My guess is that it was doneduring the war-one clue is thathe states that " a large saxsection might be 2 altos and 2tenors "; in other words, a4 -piece sax section,

There are 13 pages on Rudi-ments of Music, and 6 pages of

A new book is reviewedby famous alto -star

well -written hints and instruc-tions to beginners.

Don is so painstaking that heeven includes short paragraphson " Selecting your first instru-ment," " choosing your reeds,"and " position in playing " aswell" as the more importantaspects, such as embouchure,tonguing, breathing, vibrato,etc. Following this are some80 -odd pages of studies, inter-spersed with well -written re-minders and hints.

SMALL POINTSThe only criticisms I have to

make are very small ones, inview of the all-round excellenceof this tutor :-(1) Under " Embouchure " it is

stated that the upper teeth .should rest about an inchfrom the tip. I find that onthe alto, this distance isnearer a half an inch. Donmay have been thinking aboutthe tenor mouthpiece whenhe was writing.

(2) I think his instructionsabout vibrato might havebeen inserted later on in thebook. Personally I teachstudents to blow with straight" no-vib " tone until they arefairly proficient, but Donexpects them to play withvibrato early on (he mentionsthis in the 7th Study). Thereader will understand thatthis is a personal preferenceon my part.

(3) I did notice a few printingmistakes. On p. 47 one of the

Thank you CYRIL STAPLETON and your Show Bandfor the grand broadcasts on the British instrumental

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inversions of the chord of Cmajor is shown with an A ontop instead of a G. On the samepage it is stated that G 7thmeans G min& 7th-if so, Ihave never seen it be,fore. G 7

or G 7th means G DominantSeventh, while the symbol forG Minor Seventh is usuallywritten G mi7 or G m7. Onp. 63 Bbmi arpeggio is writtenas B natural; obviously theprinter is at fault here.

DETAILED(4) In the studies, Don has

stressed the lower range ofthe instrument; in myopinion, a few more pages ofhigh note studies would havebeen a big improvement.To sum -up, this is an excel-

lent tutor, very much in advanceof the so-called standard saxo-phone methods. It is so detailedthat I believe a complete be-ginner could learn to play fromit alone, without the aid of ateacher (although I don'trecommend this!).

Incidentally, I think teacherswill find this book extremelyuseful, especially for beginners.

Thanks, Don, for a well -written and very interestingwork, which fills a long -feltwant. It is high time a modernmethod was produced-here itis at last. By the way, a veryimportant point these days-itis wonderful value at 17s. 6d.

THE Central YMCA in Great2- Russell Street opened uptheir own jazz club on Thurs-day, October 16, with a recitalby a well-known critic. Hithertoodd jazz recitalists have visitedthe YMCA, including Bluessinger George Melly, JimmyAsman and many others.

" Put me among the girls " might well be vocalist DesWilliams' theme -song, for he is the only male in Gracie Coles'

new band-with whom he is here seen rehearsing.

THE MUSICAL BOFFIN il7otrE'" ONE Man's Number Is

Another Man's Lumber " ;being the other man, of course-that down at heel, underfedmusical boffin, The Arranger.

If you are unfortunate enoughto feel an unhealthy urge to joinour carefree and happy-go-lucky throng, may I offer you afew tips before you score yourfirst and most importantarrangement for a professionalband ?

To begin, I know you havethe most wonderful ideas in theworld-tone colours nobody hasever thought of before-voicingsthat are the last word inmodernity - weird harmoniesthat would send Arnold Baxback to the nursery, etc., etc.

Well, scrap the lot !Remember that to impress a

bandleader with your first score(he's probably dubious aboutyour abilities, anyway) youmust write something that willsound good after it has beenrehearsed for five minutes at themost.

During a busy three-hour re-hearsal he won't indulge any-body with a strange face longer

than that. In fact, if thearrangement doesn't sound justwonderful after the secondplaying he'll probably murmursomething about " Kenton " andreturn your effort withoutthanks.

Your keynote at the beginningis simplicity-and this is noth-ing to be ashamed of, I canassure you!

Write firm " clear " harmonies,and give the players somethingthat they can get their teethinto ; for instance, if you writea section for the saxophones.make it at least eight bars andkeep the voicing consistent -don't try mixing unusual com-binations of instruments justyet. If there is a modulation,make it clear cut, and to thepoint. Don't ramble.

Remember that your primeobject is to be allowed to con-tinue writing for the band, soyou must gain everyone's con-fidence at the beginning.

And how do you please thebandleader, the musicians, thevocalist and the BBC producer,all at the same time ?

Well, who could ?

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1952

THE BUD POWELL TRIO(Long Playing, 331 rpm.

Vogue LD.010)'THIS. LP comprises eight titles,± and a more interesting orinspired package I've yet tohear.

" I'll Remember April " startsin as a Beguine, and soon de-velops into a jump. After theneat first chorus of the melody,Powell only needs to play a fewbars to make one realise thathe is the greatest single -finger -style modern pianist aroundtoday.

His harmonic knowledge isnot as profound as, say, Elling-bon or Garner, but his percus-sive and rhythmic " feel" and" know how " are beyond criti-cism. He is a right-handedpianist, meaning that all hisimprovisation is strictly fromhis right-hand - the left ismerely an anchor, used foroccasional stab chords or punc-tuations-but what a right-hand he possesses!

The final two bars of this sideconsist of a semiquaver run,rapped out with machine-gunprecision.

" I Should Care " has someGarner-ish piano work, octavestuff, and full chordal right-hand work. Highlight of this isthe coda, with the bass player'sfigures bringing out the fullmeaning of the chord pro-gressions.

Next comes Gershwin's "NiceWork If You Can Get It." Thisis too fast for comfort, and inthe four choruses Powell trotsout, his technique is not tooclean, but nevertheless, somegood stuff emerges.

" Off Minor " is a weird one,typical of its composer, Thelo-nious Monk. Powell is fine here,and really gets carried away-you can hear him grunting inagony as his fertile mindsearches, and finds, one goodidea after another. This endsside one.

" Somebody Loves Me " has agood first chorus in block style,also, later on, plenty of doubletempo runs, and the effectiveuse of thirds, by the pianist.

" Bud's Bubble " comes next,up tempo. This one goes to MaxRoach for his out -of -this -worlddrum breaks-amazing stuff byan amazing drummer.

A lovely ballad follows," Everything Happens To Me."Here Powell brings his latentleft-hand into action, in somedescending chord passages, andthe coda stems straight fromDebussy !

Finally comes " Indiana,"which is taken at breakneck

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speed. This is the best Powellof the bunch, and he is sure -fingered and inspired all theway.

Through the whole eightnumbers the drumming of MaxRoach (all brushes, by theway !) and the bass work ofCurley Russell is really superb,and they back up the pianistlike heroes.

As for Powell, he does a fan-tastic job here, and all hisgenius is confined to a compassof two to three octaves; the

middle. If the keyboard is hisimprovising focal point.

Bud's piano playing doesn'tmake for happy music; there isa sad strain running througheverything he does-the sad-ness of a genius who is strivingwith an urgency which compelsyou to listen to him.

You must hear these sides,for he has put down on wax hisvery soul. . . . I can't stopraving !

You can keep your commer-cial music, for while there aremusicians like Powell, there isalways the hope that modernjazz will one day make thegrade and earn the place in thesun it so rightfully deserves.

GEORGIA GIBBS(Glenn Osser's Orchestra)

" Kiss of Fire "" While You Danced, Danced,

Danced"(Oriole CB.1110)

HAS any reader started theunusual hobby of collect-

ing different versions of " Kissof Fire "? Here's yet another,the umpteenth I've reviewed,and it's by " Her Nibs, MissGibbs," and very good, too.

She has a big voice, andplenty of style, and her resem-blance here to Anne Shelton isremarkable. Glenn Osser'sOrchestra make with sometasty tango noises, very fittingfor the occasion.

Backing, a waltz, is evenbetter. The thrush warbles con -

I CAN'T STOP RIVING!'RalphSharon goes wild about a sad piano -playing genius who puts his soul on wax

fidently with great poise andcontrol, paying attention to herphrasing, and so turns in aswell job.

Gratifying Georgia Gibbs.

TINO CHRISTIDI" Tonight The Stars Are Mine "

" Waltiing in Paradise "(Nixa NY.7683)

T THINK in Christidi we have-1. unearthed a potential goldmine, for Tino is a tenor witha really grand voice, far betterthan many big names around.

His voice is strong and true,his diction excellent, and unlikemany singers-especially of theMartino variety-he does not

force; on the contrary,his forte is the re-straint and feelingwhich he uses most in-telligently.

On both sides theLinger does sterlingwork, but I questionthe label's decision tolaunch a new singerwith two unknownsongs, Why not givehim something fromthe current HitParade? What a won-derful job Tino wouldhave made of " KissOf Fire," for instance.

However, these sidesunderline the fact thatChristidi is one of themajor British vocal

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STAN KENTON'SORCHESTRA

" Santa Lucia "" Street of Dreams "

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JUSTlet your imagination

wander a little, will you,please? The Kenton crew enterthe recording studio. "Hi,gang," the leader greets theband. " Ili, Stan," they reply.

Instruments are unwrappedfrom their warm cosy cases,and the musicians start towarm up. "What's it to be to-day, Stan?" an eager voiceenquires, " Progressive, digres-sive, commercial, wall of sound,or wall of corn? "

"None of them," the leaderanswers, with a gleam in hiseye. "Men, we're going to trya new idea. We've worked outa wonderful arrangement-andguess what the gimmick is?We play 'the melody!"

"Huh?-" gasp the band." Yep-you heard me-and

Vido Musso is going to play thesolo tenor part dead straight,right off the song copy."

Cries of " Oh, no " off stage,and a box of aspirins and an icepack are brought for poor Vido,and the session is on !

" Santa Lucia " is the result,and if ever a musician soundedunhappy, Musso is that man.The side starts in as a waltz,

with the solo tenor sharp as anacid drop, and as wobbly as afugitive from Lombardoland.

The arrangement goes into ajump tempo, and finally the siderides out in double tempo, withMusso emulating the " oozlam "bird, by diving head first in aflurry of white smoke into thebell of his own tenor.

A stinker, this side ! But holdon-would you believe it?-theother side finds the Kentonitesturning in as neat and tastefulpiece of work as you could wishfor.

Tune's a nostalgic slow, andfeatures Stan's chordal piano,some top-flight a 1 t o (ArtPepper?) and first-rate sectionwork from brass and saxes,

So there we are. One sidesmells to high heaven, the otheris a fine musicianly job. Whatan enigma this man Kenton is !

Sanctimonious Stan.

*DICK HAYMES and

THE ANDREWS SISTERS" Here In My Heart "

"I'm Sorry "(Bruns. 04979)

IF you like stylish, relaxed andeasy - on - the - ears singing,

then Haymes is your man.On both sides he is helped out

m o s t effectively by theAndrews Sisters. Haymes fitsin remarkably well with thegals, and phrases perfectly withthem. This is a winning com-bination that warrants furtherdiscs.

Nothing startling happenshere, but on the other hand,nothing comes up to disturbthe pleasant atmosphere whichenvelopes these sides like awarm westerly breeze. Poetic,ain't it?

Handsome Haymes and For-ever Andrews.*RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET

"In a Shady Nook"" Baltimore Rag "

(Decca F.9982)WELL, what do you know !

Ray Ellington singing"Shady Nook "-Donald Peerswith muscles yet !

Ray takes this at a jumptempo and puts the opus overwith his usual polished charm.There's a witty musical refer-ence to "Over The Waves," andDick Katz must be needing anew set of finger -nails afterseveral agonising piano glisseshere. An enjoyable side.

But the flipover's a stinkeroo,and strictly for morons. This isa cod instrumental by theQuartet, and gets MickeyMouse treatment. My heartgoes out to Katz, a jazz pianistfor whom I have a lot of re-spect. He has to indulge in aload of rubbish here, and is

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Bud Powell, out thereon his own !

unconvincing in the role of apubic -house pianist.

Don't do it, Ray ! The publicmay be square, I'll agree, butthey don't expect this kind ofthing from you and the boys.Heaven knows there areenough corn merchants aroundwho play this way all the time,without you doing it. Thesesides are, respectively,

Rollicking and Rise -takingRay. *

ALMA COGAN(with Frank Cordell's Orch.)

" Blue Tango ""Half As Much "

(HMV B.10338)AFTER last week's fine inter-

pretation of " Blue Tango "by Lee Lawrence, the Coganversion doesn't rate too high.

There are a number of faultsthe singer has that I can'tleave unnoticed; poor diction,and faulty intonation, especi-ally in the lower register. MissCogan certainly makes hardgoing of the " Tango " opus.

Same applies to the secondside. A strident but beatlessvocal which lacks any finesseor polish.

Unimpressive Cogan.*TOMMY DORSEY

(with Gordon Jenkins' Orch.and Choir)

"There Are Such Things"GORDON JENKINS'

ORCHESTRA" My Love and Devotion "

(Bruns. 04992)AI/THOUGH Tommy Dorsey

gets top label credit, hiswork here is confined to twoshort passages leading themuted brass, which he doescompetently but no better thanany good lead trombone.

Most of the side is taken upby the choir, which is thin -sounding because of the scoringfor the female voices-far toohigh for a rich blend.

Reverse, too, is a let -down.Here the arrangement ismournful and uninspired, andthe whole dramatic content ofthe tune is completely lost inthis milk and water version.

Desultory Dorsey and JadedJenkins.

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Here is the terrific finale of the Ted HeathJamboree presentation-" Rhapsody for Drums,"

which brought the house down.

Ronnie Scott-one of the day's solo stars-tearsoff a characteristic solo with the Jack

Parnell Band.

Johnny Dankworth in action at the Jamboreewith his trumpet -player Eddie Blair, Pianist

Bill Le Sage can be seen on left.

GREAT FUN AND GREAT MUSICcc E could never put on anything like this in the

States. We haven't got the bands." With theseWords, US bandleader Cab Calloway-now in London asa star of " Porgy and Bess "-expressed his opinion of the14th{ Annual, Jazz Jamboree which packed the vastGaumont State, Kilburn, last Sunday (October 12).

The NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS invited Cab along as our guestto the Jamboree, and with him came ex -Lionel Hampton andLucky Millinder trumpet -star, Howard Roberts, who is alsoappearing in "Porgy and Bess".

These two Americans, hardened as they are through years andyears of dance band experience in the States, were amazed atthe standard of performanceand the qualities of showman-ship displayed by ten ofBritain's leading bands givingtheir services in aid of musi-cians' charities.

They enjoyed every minute ofthe three-hour show, and so didthe audience of 4.000 - forit was one of the best Jam-borees ever put on, and it wascertainly the most good-humoured and entertainingevent in the long series, of thesegreat occasions.

LaughterAs the audience were taking

their seats, we received our firstindication of the style of showthat we were going to see, whenDr. Crock and his Crackpotsmarched down the aisle in hila-rious procession. On the stage,they proceeded to put on a high-powered laughter show that leftthe audience limp

Everything happened. Mem-bers of the crazy aggregationmarched through the audience ;others went through ridiculousroutines ; pandemonium reigned

and yet throughout, Dr Crock(Harry Hines) manfully playedhis clarinet and the band blewtheir own version of Poet andPeasant."

Full marks to the genius whothought of starting the Jam-boree on this bright note. Usu-ally, we have had an overtureby an enormous string -spangledtheatre -type of orchestra, butDr Crock set the pattern forwhat was to follow, and, insteadof bands taking themselvesover -seriously, good humourand relaxed entertainment be-came the keynote of the subse-quent proceedings.

After Dr Crock came CarlBarriteau, full of personality, asusual, and still as fluent as everon clarinet and alto. Cab Callo-way thought the band " veryclean " and his comment on Carlwas: "He can blow!"

He and Howard were im-pressed by Derek Price's drum-ming (especially his use of thefoot -pedal) and Geoff Alderson'stenor sax. Mae Cooper sangwith the band, which put on alively show.

The compering was per-formed by " Professor " JimmyEdwards, in cap and gown; whogave a musicianly touch to hishumour and had the audienceon his side from the word "go."He was great. He never talkedtoo much or monopolised the

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occasions. Straddled untidilyacross the stage, the six menlooked uncomfortable andsounded so-all except Humphhimself, who was most chattyand affable.

They played three numbers-" The Onions " (in which the

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proceedings ; all the w a ythrough, he was a model ofwhat a compere should be fora professional show of thisnature.

The small bands were accom-modated, as usual, in the or-chestra -pit, and the first groupto rise from the depths was theJimmy Walker Quintet. It hadn'tbeen playing more than a fewbars of " Cherokee " before CabCalloway was leaning forwardin his seat with keen intentness.

He and Howard exchangedeulogistic comments about thearrangements, the playing and- particularly - the accordion(Roy Herbert) and the bass(Arthur Watts).

Praise for WalkerJimmy himself played

soprano, alto and tenor withassurance and inventiveness,and the group's four numbersproduced these comments fromCab-" This is the first time I'veever heard an accordion I reallyliked " and " That bass man ismad ; he's solid ! "

Our guests, in common withthe rest of the audience, gavethe band a great ovation andagreed that it was modern, sub-dued and musically intelligent.

Jimmy's stage -presence was apleasant surprise, for he did notbat an eyelid when his tenor -sling broke or when the plat-form refused to carry him outof sight after the last number.His sangfr ,id earned h i manother ovation.

From modern we came to tra-ditional with Humphrey Lyttel-ton and his Band, whom I haveheard play much better on other

audience joined) ; a WallyFawkes' original " ClosingTime " and " Travelling Blues."Humph's playing went downquite well with Howard Roberts,but neither of our co -critics wasover -impressed.

However, their enthusiasmwelled up again with the emer-gence of the Ray EllingtonQuartet - immaculate and asfull of personality -plus as ever.Ray very nicely introducedHoward and Cab to the audi-ence, and the crowd gave thema tremendous reception,

Superb ParnellRay's first number was an im-

personation of Johnnie Raysinging " Cry " which-if I mayvery respectfully say so-mighthave been supplanted by somemore suitable number. It wasfunny enough, but unoriginalfor Ray, who usually sets sucha high standard of originality.

However, the group madeamends with an instrumental" Make No Mistake " and withthe Fats Waller medley that fol-lowed. Flawless, superbly -rehearsed playing and comedyhad the fans by the ears.

Last turn in the first half hadCab Calloway shaking his headadmiringly and muttering :" That's it! " And it was it. tooin the person of Jack Parnelland his Music Makers.

What a band this is ! Bub-bling over with youth, person-ality, zest and exuberance, themusic they roared out wasquite breathtaking.

Their first number " Cather-ine Wheel " was a showpiece forthe whole orchestra, and roused

the audience to a pitch of ex-citement that had not so farbeen reached even in this en-thusiastic Jamboree.

I felt that the trumpets weremore wild than polished, andthat Derek Humble's alto -play-ing sounded a little anaemic forso fierce a band, but the generaleffect was staggeringly good.

Jack then gave a concessionto the fans who like his voiceand sang " Meet Me On TheCorner." The applause sug-gested that most of the audiencewould gladly have met himthere any time he said-butrather for his appearance thanhis voice, I would have thought.

As a surprise, he introducedthe Skylarks, the vocal groupwho are accompanying BettyHutton at the London Palla-dium. What they may lack inoutstanding vocal technique,they make up for in fascinat-ingly original presentationwhich turns their numbers intovocals -plus -mime -plus -ballet.

It was particularly effectivein " St. Louis Blues," but theirGeorge Mitchellish unaccom-panied version of "Danny Boy"was quite unsuitable for theoccasion ; didn't somebody tellthem ?

It was a great gesture ontheir part to come along togive their services to Britishmusicians' charities, but threenumbers taken off Jack Par-nell's stint was rather too greata slab out of this great band'srestricted ration,

Double DrummingThe band went out with "The

Champ", in which Ronnie Scott, raised the roof with his tenor -playing and spurred the bandon to even greater efforts underthe influence of his drivingplaying. He was the first indi-vidualist to get spontaneousapplause for a solo-and howhe deserved it!

"The Champ" worked up tothe terrific climax that is soidentified with the Parnell pre-sentation-the "four -hands -that -beat -as -two" Parnell and PhilSeaman drum -duet.

The simultaneous stickworkof the two side -by -side drum-mers gave the impression thatwe were watching one drum-mer reflected in a mirror,and Cab and Howard werecarried away by the stunt.

They freely admitted theyhad never seen anything like it,and were vociferous in theirpraise of "a great band" as thecurtains closed. Cab, in fact,was shouting like a real fan.

There was no time for anydiscussion during the interval,for the whole period was takenup in signing autographs for thehost of fans who descended onCab and Howard and buried


Pat Dodd (left) lends an appreciative ear to theU.S. vocal group, the Skylarks, as they rehearse

in the dressing -room,

Comedy highspot of the Jamboree-" Satchrno "Edwards (euphonium doubling mortarboard)

joins in with the Randall Band,

Just before the curtain goes up, Ted Heath(centre) takes a last look -round. Trombone

Jimmy Coombes is in foreground.

AT THE

them under a mass of wavingprogrammes.

With characteristic Americangeniality, Cab and Howardobliged until their arms ached-without a word of reproach andwithout missing anyone out.

First band up after the inter-val was the Freddy Randallgroup, a very bright and virilebunch that kicked off with"Basin Street Blues". Howardwas at once impressed withFreddy's own fluent playing,which he said was so full offeeling.

Although Freddy Randall isone of the most highly -strungof top -line players and goesthrough nervous agonies beforehe does a show, his playinggave no sign of strain or ten-sion, and the drive that his littlegroup generated had the wholeplace rocking.

Particularly interesting werethe passages between Freddyand his trombone -player, Nor-man Cave, which held the realessence of good - humouredDixieland playing.

6Hot' Euphonium !The " Original Dixieland One -

Step" and " The Sheik "whipped enthusiasm up to aterrific heat, but the greatmoment in the band's show waswhen Jimmy Edwards marched

on with his euphonium and pro-ceeded to join the boys in atearaway version of " TigerRag."

How the boys managed toplay we shall never know,for we in the audience werehelpless with laughter asJimmy pom-pommed his waythrough a rhythmic accom-paniment of his own devising,and then took a series ofnimble breaks that carriedone back on a magic carpetto the good old days of 1920 !The crowd had been punish-

ing its hands all afternoon, butthey produced a storm of ap-plause for this show -stopper.

Brent WastedSo we came to Arthur Row -

berry and his New Orchestra,making its debut in these ex-alted circles. It is perhaps un-fortunate that Arthur tried toohard to make a show; had hebeen content to play arrange-ments more in character withthe type of work he usuallyperforms, and with the technicalresources of his musicians, hewould have done much better.

As it was, he played a seriesof over -elaborate arrangementsthat lacked drive and interest.The over-all effect was one ofplodding dullness-which is agreat pity, because Rowberry's

From a seat in the circle our photographer took this shot ofTed Heath and his Band, with Bobby Pratt (on left) playing

one of the solo high spots of the Jamboree.

Band can do much better thanthis, when it " does what comesnaturally."

A surprise that might havecome off but didn't was the in-troduction of vocalist TonyBrent to sing a couple of num-bers with the band. As readerswill know, our critics have thehighest regard for this singer,and, in a proper setting, hemight have implemented hisrecording reputation in no un-certain manner.

But what happened? He cameon to sing two numbers cold,with the accompaniment ofpiano and drums. In his firstnumber, "Please Don't SayNo," the pianist achieved theamazing performance of beingtwo bars ahead of the singerthroughout, and, in " WalkingTo Missouri." poor Tony triedto walk while the pianist ranabout uncontrollably in differ-ent directions!

Why no rehearsal, boys? Itwas a most embarrassing wasteof good material.

Incidentally, Arthur, CabCalloway made the suggestionthat, if instead of your five -saxes -three -trumpets -one trom-bone line-up, you dropped onesax and added another trom-bone, you would get a morebalanced sound.

Next on came the JohnnyDankworth Seven-who werein sparkling form, and earnedthe highest tribute from Cabwho roared " These cats aregone, boy-I'm telling you . .

gone!"

Modern PolishAnd they were gone, too;

they blew and banged withthat modern polish that neverpalls and that brilliant musici-anship that illuminated everyphrase they played.

The Seven never seem to haveheard of wrong notes, andHoward Roberts was particu-larly impressed by the way theyworked around the chords, eachpne of them following everychange with effortless tech-nique and a never -failing storeof ideas.

Cleo Laine sang " StormyWeather " with the group, andseemed to be inspired by theoccasion to rise to new heights.Our guests definitely put hertops in the Jamboree vocal de-partment. They liked FrankHolder, too, whose "Lady BeGood " smacked more thansomewhat of Cab himself.

Now, I don't know if I havemanaged to get over to you inthis review any idea of themounting enthusiasm that per-vaded the Jamboree as eachband came on and did its stuff.Everything was great, and itseemed that there just couldn'tbe anything better than what

BOREwe had already seen. . . . Andthen came Ted Heath and hisMusic.

What he pulled out of the bagwill go down in Jamboree his-tory.

Immaculate HeathThe curtain rose on a band

that looked immaculate inspotless uniforms, with Tedhimself slimmer and jauntierthan we have ever seen him.He announced a special medleycalled " Jamboree Days," whichpaid tribute to great playersassociated with the Jamboreeeither directly or indirectly.

Denis Lotis came on to ex-plain the idea in specially -written words and music, andsmoothly the arrangement ledin to Bobby Pratt playingBunny Berigan's " I Can't GetStarted."

Well, I've heard some play-ing in my time but what youngBobby put into his chorus willtake some beating.

While we were still reelingfrom the impact of this out -of -this -world solo, Dickle Valen-tine bounced on to electrify uswith his impression of BillyDaniels singing " That Old BlackMagic " followed by glamorousLita Roza singing "Ain't Mis-behavin' ", leading up to Tedhimself picking up his trom-bone and forming a five -mantrombone section for an immacu-late and breath -taking perfor-mance of the Glenn Miller ar-rangement of " Bugle Call Rag."

What precision! What musici-anship! What showmanship!

Then Ted announced " a littlething that Ronnie Verrall, RalphDollimore, and yours trulyhave cooked up. We call it' Rhapsody For Drums '." So wesettled back to hear some moreskin -pounding, but what a dif-ference in the Heath concep-tion of a drum -speciality !

Ronnie Verrall went into adrum solo, and suddenly everyother member of the orchestrahad taken up a small, deeptom-tom and a drumstick hid-den behind their music -stands.Each section inaugurated a

beat on its own, so that ulti-mately all the sections werebanging away intricate cross -rhythms while, above it all,Ronnie gave out with his ownsolo.

Section by section, the drumswere put away and exchangedfor instruments and the num-ber ended in pandemonium-from the audience, that is: notthe players who, beautifullydrilled, and magnificent in everysense, had put on a show thatwound up the Jamboree in averitable blaze of glory.

The best compliment that canbe paid the Heath performanceis to quote Cab Calloway. Hesaid:

" I have never heard a bandwith such precision since thegreat Glenn (Miller Band. I'dgo so far as to sav that, onthis performance, Heath hasone of the best bands in theworld, and he'd c'ean up ifhe came to the States. I'mgoing to write and tell themover there what I heard to-day; it'll shake them up."Well, that's the story of the

Jamb-ree--a great day that re-flects the highest possible crediton those competing and on theMusicians' Social and Benevo-lent Council, who organised theshow.

£2,000 MadeSpecial tribute should be paid

to Pat Dodd (who acted asstage -manager on behalf of theCouncil), and had the valuableback -stage help of CharlesBohm, Dennis Neale, HymieCohen and Jim Higgins.

Chief stewards in charge ofthe seating were Ted Ansteyand Len Hunt; and Joe Nuss-baum ant Bob Lamont didvaluable backstage financialwork. Last but not least, aspecial word for secretaryAlfred H. Morgan, who had allthe headaches.

The hard work of the Coun-cil is rewarded by the news that,as a result of the packed JazzJamboree, no less than £2,000will be handed over to 'he main-tenance of the Musicians'Union Benevolent Funds.-R.S.

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Bouquets!WE HAVE enjoyed a most illuminating

week-end-one that has made us feel ex-ceedingly proud of our home-grown dancebands and dance musicians. As you willread elsewhere in this issue, we tookHoward Roberts and Cab Calloway alongto the Jazz Jamboree, and watched theirreactions to this showcase of British dancemusic. They were so delighted with whatthey saw that they wanted more, so in theevening we took them to Ted Heath'sSwing Session at the London Palladium,where we watched them applauding withthe enjoyment of youngsters.

WHAT WAS their reaction ? One ofpleasure-but also one of amazement. Bothof them are experienced in the world ofdance music, but they freely confessed thatthey had no idea that they would comeacross such brilliant dance bands and suchmusicianship in Britain.

IN EFFECT, they said that the Americanentertainment profession has the firm ideathat the British are staid and lagging farbehind in the sphere of music. But whatis the real truth ? They come over hereexpecting to suffer in an arid musicaldesert and they find a crop that astoundsthem.

" WHY DON'T you make more noise aboutyour bands ? " asked Cab Calloway. " Whydon't you tell everybody how good theyare ? Ted Heath's Band would be a sen-sation in the States, given good exploita-tion stack of records to be pushedout over the networks there in advance.They'd be a riot. So would DickieValentine."

TALKING ABOUT the Jamboree, he said heand Howard were absolutely amazed atthe arrangements used by the bands. " Inthe States," he explained, " it's only thetop name bands who could have scores likethat. They're the only ones who can affordthe high-priced writers of such material.The less famous groups (and they are inthe majority) have to make do witharrangements that aren't in the same streetas the stuff your writers are turning outhere."

SUMMING UP, they both declared they weredelighted and amazed at our standard ofplaying, our ideas, our presentation and ourknowledge of and feeling for every type ofdance music and jazz.

IT'S ENOUGH to make the profession feelvery proud of itself, and we're very gladindeed to have the opportunity of convey-ing to the profession the spontaneous andsincere plaudits of so distinguished acouple of visitors to our shores.

IT IS certainly time that our musicians ridthemselves of their inferiority complex, andrealised that they have plenty to shoutabout. Take a look at our New York cor-respondent's interim report on this pageabout the " Metronome " Poll. Britishmusicians figure prominently among thevoting. It makes you feel proud, doesn't it?

National Federation of Jazz Organisations

THE N90 OCTOBER IAN BAILfeaturing

IRENE SCRUGGSAMERICAN OKEH, VOCALION, GENNETT ANDPARAMOUNT BLUES SIN-ER WITH KING OLIVrR.KID ORY, CLARENCE WILLIAMS, BLIND BLAKE, ETC,

with

Freddy Randall and his BandMick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band

Crane River Jazz BandGeorge Melly - Neva Raphaello

AT THE HAMMERSMITH PALMS7.30 to 12 p.m. Monday October 20th

Tickets 4'- each fromHammersmith Palais or NFJO, 18 Timbercroft Lane, S E.I8Comperes : Rex Harris, Sinclair Train, lames Asman

SCOTT AND KLEIN TO

QUIT JACK PARNELL

CUMMINGSFOR

SHOW BANDOUTSTANDING sessioneer

and for many years a main-stay of the Squadronaires, JockCummings has been fixed asthe drummer with the BBCShow Band by leader CyrilStapleton.

He replaces Tony Kinsey,who as we exclusively reportedtwo weeks ago, withdrew fromthe band on the eve of itsdebut.

In the interim period, MickyGrieve, Bobby Midgely, etc.,have been depping.

Jock Cummings has had wideexperience in all sections ofthe percussive art, and has helddown many timpany jobs,notably in the recent LondonColiseum success "Kiss MeKate." He is highly regardedas a fine all-round percus-sionist.

KILLED A COW-AND LOST

TRAVELLING through thenight last Saturday to

compete in the All -BritainFinals at Belle Vue, Manches-ter, Fred Hedley and his Bandwere involved in what mighthave been a more serious acci-dent.

The coach in which they weretravelling struck a herd of cowsduring thick fog, and, afterskidding right across the roadand almost overturningfinished up by missing a tele-graph pole by inches. A cowwas killed, and Hedley himselfcomplained of an injury to hisback.

Despite the unfortunate jour-ney, the boys competed in theafternoon without any sleepand finished fourth. The Quin-tet, of Wolverhampton, werefirst, with Portsmouth's JohnnyLyne Orchestra, second, andRaymond and his Orchestra, ofSutton Coldfield. third.

Cave leavesRandall for GoldNORMAN CAVE who has

been with Freddy Randalland his Band on and off forabout three years, both on pianoand trombone, has come to anamicable agreement withFreddy Randall, and is leavingthe band.

Both are reluctant to partcompany, but Norman wants ajob with more scope for hisarranging capabilities - ofwhich Freddy speaks veryhighly - plus more readingwork.

Not wanting to leave the Dixiefield entirely, Norman hasaccepted a position with HarryGold, to take the place of TedDarrah,

In the meantime, FreddyRandall is looking for ahighly competent trombone.All enquiries should beaddressed to 97, CalderonRoad, London, E.11, or tele-phone MUS 9733, with fullparticulars.

A further audition is beingheld at 11 a.m. next Tuesday(21st) at Mac's RehearsalRooms, Gt. Windmill Street,

W.1.

TWO out-one in," that'sthe position with the

Jack Parnell Band as we goto Press. Latest developmentis that the country's top tenorman Ronnie Scott is leavingafter all, and his place will betaken by the star man of JoeLoss's sax section, Joe Tem-perley (as Tony Hall exclu-sively forecast last week).Also leaving the Parnell band

is baritone saxist Harry Klein.We gather that Harry intendsto work on plans which canbest be described as a further-ance of the ideas which he andKen Wray had in mind prior tojoining Parnell a few weeksback.

MODERNISTJoe Temperley is held in high

esteem by many musicians as amodern jazzman whose workhas been heard all too littlearound the clubs; this restric-tion has, of course, been causedby the heavy itinerary annuallyundertaken by the Loss band.

Speaking to the NME thisweek, Jack Parnell said : " Joeis, in my opinion, a fine tenorman who will fit in to my bandvery well. Who is replacingHarry Klein? Well, I can'tname him today, but his signingwill be a big surprise."

Who is this mysterious per-son? Well, the NME's guess isthat he is not generally knownis a baritone player - but hasalready become famous as astyle -setting musician.

Trombonist George Rowe whonext Monday joins Lew Stonewishes us to state most emphati_cally that he is not the person-)f a similar name mentioned bythe MU in a directive.

JOE LOSSWANTS MEN

BANDLEADER Joe Loss tellsthe NME that he is losing

two of his long-establishedmusicians.

The first, as reported else-where, is tenorman Joe Tem-perley, who moves over to JackParnell, and the other is bass -player Sid Burke, after a staywith Joe of over twelve years.

Joe has asked us to statethat he is in need of replace-ments for these men, due toleave on October 26, and in-vites applications. However,he emphasises that only top -grade musicians should apply,and these are asked to phoneLangham 1212,

LATE NEWS.-For next weekonly, the " Frozen Robin'sNest." Hornchurch. will be openon Wednesday, instead ofTuesday as announced in ourclassified columns (which hadalready gone to press when the

news was received).

!

Freddy Randall is busy hereauditioning trombone players toreplace Norman Cave, and thisis how he looked, sufferingfrom trombonitis, after the first

spell of auditions.

EDMUNDO ROS LEAVINGBAGATELLE AFTER 10 YEARS

ALONG and famous association between bandleaderand restaurant comes to an end at the beginning of

next month, when Edmundo Ros leaves the Bagatelle,Mayfair Place, W, at the expiration of his present con-tract on November 1.

Edmundo started at theBagatelle on March 16, 1942.and told the NME this week:" In my ten years there, I haveenjoyed the best possible runthat any bandleader could wishfor, I have been very success-ful and very lucky, and I lovethe place. But now circumstan-ces have forced me to ask themto release me from my contractwhen it expires."

The reason, he went on toexplain, is that he proposes todevote all his energies to theCocoanut Grove, Regent Street,W., of which he is the owner.

"At the moment," he said, " Idivide my activities between

MARY LOU WILLIAMSTO TOUR HERE

HARD on the heels of thenews that agent Harry

Dawson is bringing overGospel singer Mahalia Jack-son, comes yet another im-portant aftermath of Harry'svisit to the States last year.for he has booked Mary LouWilliams to appear in thiscountry, from the first weekin December.

Several dates have ...iready

WOOLF PHILLIPS LEADING BANDFOR 5 -WEEKS' HUTTON TOUR

WHEN Betty Hutton opens her five -week provincialtour on the Moss Empires circuit next Monday

(20th) in Glasgow, the conductor of her 15 -piece accom-panying orchestra will be Skyrockets MD Woolf Phillips-not Bobby Howell, as previously reported.

In a statement to the NME,Howell said : " It was neverintended that I should conductthe orchestra, but it was onlyrecently decided that WoolfPhi:lips should do so. However,[ would like to emphasise thatit is my orchestra, selected byme."

Asked by the NME whetherhe could say anything moreabout the obscurity which hasshrouded the whole subject of

the Hutton accompanyinggroup, Howell declined to do so,saying " it would be quite a mis-take for me to make any com-ment in the circumstances."

During Woolf's 5 -weekabsence, the Skyrockets arebeing conducted by well-knownMD Jack Ansell, who has in thepast fronted the orchestras atthe Alhambra, Glasgow, and theBlackpool Opera House.

Woolf Phillips returns to

London for one day on Novem-ber 3 to conduct the RoyalVariety Command Performance.

Personnel of the touringgroup, which will accompanyBetty Hutton's act only - notthe entire programme - is asfollows :

Stan Newsome, 'Lim Carey,Ray Coleman (trumpets);George Flynn, Maurice Gee,Jock McCanley (trombones);Tony Moser, Norman Maloney,Andy McDevitt, Sid Wilcox(saxes); Billy Miller (piano);Leo Routledge (bass); MaxAbrams (drums) and JackieMoir and Sam Welt man(strings).

Luton formingMU branch

THE town without a branch ofthe Musicians' Union was

how NME writer Les Perrindescribed Luton in a recentarticle.

Now, something is being doneabout that, for this Sunday(19th) at 11 a.m. there is to bea meeting at the Panama Hotel,Waller Street. Luton, to form a'ocal branch of the MU.

Sneakers at the meeting will'le South-east District OrganiserKen Bennett, and TommyBarton. Chairman of the South-east District Council. Manymusicians in Luton and districtfeel that this is a long -neededmove, and all those interestedare cordially invited to attend.

the two places. I have my 12 -piece band at the Bagatelle, andmy 9 -piece at the Grove, and Ispend my time every eveningbetween them. Now I want to

been fixed, including a concertat the Royal Albert Hall onDecember 7.

Mary Lou Williams is regar-ded as one of the foremost jazzpianists and singers of the day.and has long been a favouriteon records here.

To coincide with her Britishtour, Vogue will be releasingspecial LP and 78 rpm discsfeaturing her inimitable brandof jazz performance.

We understand that her tourwill be of at least 3 weeks, withoptions, and she will play aconcert in Dublin, among herother dates. There is also thepossibility of a booking for herin Iceland, when she leavesEngland.

SUPPORT GROUPQuestioned about the support-

ing group to accompany MaryLou on her tour, Harry Dawsontold the NME: " There will bea very big surprise when I canannounce the name of thisgroup, next week."

Further news about MahaliaJackson's tour is that she willbe doing' a BBC " World ofJazz " session on November8.Dates that have been fixed

for her include-Nov. 9, Cam-bridge (afternoon), Oxford(evening); 11th, Leicester; 14th,Hanley: 15th, Royal AlbertHall; 16th, Luton, with book-ings pencilled in for Southamp-ton and Hastings.

SANTIAGO

SUCCEEDS

ROSSANTIAGO LOPEZ and

his Orchestra have se-cured the coveted appoint-ment to replace EdmundoRos at the BagatelleRestaurant, W. On Monday,November 3. Santiago takesover leading his own eight -piece band, and thereby setsthe seal on some nine yearsof West End bandleading.

Renowned in Latin-Americancircles and on radio and recordsfor his magnificent voice, heopened the Milroy in 1943, andsubsequently played at theAstor and Colony, as well as inthe London Hippodrome pro-duction, " Starlight Roof."

LATIN MUSICrecords for Oriole records,

and broadcasts very frequently." I am looking forward to

going into the Bagatelle," hetold the NME on Tuesday. " Iand my band play all sorts ofLatin music-not only Latin-American rhythms - which ex-plains our popularity with theSpanish Embassies and so on."

SQUADSCHANGES

TWO changes in the " Squad-ronaires" brass section fol-

lowed close on the band's re-turn from its recent tour ofIreland. Ex -Stapleton trombon-ist Charlie Messenger replacedJack Botterill, and CharlieRowlands, trumpeter from the" Blue Rockets," replaced TerryLewis.

Both changes took effect atthe beginning of this week whenthe "Squads " recommencedtheir one-nighters and broad-casting dates.

British Musicians TakingHonours in kmerican Poll

DEFINITE indications that British bands and artistsare at last getting a break in the States came this

week with a report from NME New York correspondentBill Coss that at the mid-wav stage in the " Metronome "Poll vote -counting, five British stars are figuringprominently in their respective sections.

Blind pianist -leader GeorgeShearing is topping the smallgroup and pianist sections;singer Alan Dean looks likebeing among the first ten malevocalists this year; Ronnie Balland Johnny Dankworth havereceived several votes apiece

in the piano and alto groupings,and Ted Heath's name figures inthe big band division.

Shearing and Dean are, ofcourse, currently working inthe States and have been heardin person by the American publie generally; Ronnie Ball wen

over there more recently, buthis appearance in the Pollwould seem to indicate that heis already making his presencefelt.

The success of Ted Heath'sexcellent recordings for Decca'sLondon label is reflected in thislatest news of his popularityacross the Atlantic. Regularreaders of " Metronome " and" Downbeat " will already knowof the customary high ratingsHeath discs get from thesemagazines' reviewers.

The presence in the listings

of Johnny Dankworth mustlargely be due to the playing ofhis records over disc -jockeyshows, as although Esquirehave made arrangements withthe Mercury label for someDankworth LP's to be issuedthere, Esquire executive CarloKrahmer doesn't know whetherthe discs are yet on sale to theAmerican public.

Sid Gross, New York's Britishdisc -jockey, is known to featureJohnny's recordings wheneverhe can, and Leonard Featheralso plugs the British alto star.

play only at my own place-the Grove-and intend later onto turn it into a restaurant,opening at 9 o'clock in theevening, instead of a night-club,opening at 11."

15 -PIECEEdmundo will lead a 15 -piece

band at the Grove, comprisinghis complete 12 -piece Bagatelleoutfit, plus three members ofhis present Grove band-JackBassett (third trumpet); BarryMorgan (drums) and BertMeredith (rhythm instruments).

He opens up at the Grove onMonday, November 3, followinga Sunday concert at the DeMontfort Hall, Leicester.

As announced elsewhere onthis page, Santiago Lopez andhis Orchestra succeed Edmundoat the Bagatelle. Stanley Black (right) lines up his tour of one-nighters with

agent Maurice Kinn.

STANLEY BLACK MAKESPOST -BBC PLANS

LITA ROZA'S

DUTCH 11111111PHGLAMOROUS Ted Heath sing-

ing star Lita Roza, who, asexclusively reported in ourcolumns last week, paid a fly-ing visit to Holland to broad-cast over Radio Avro, foundherself feted by officials of theDecca record company there onher arrival at the airport.

But the bouquets and wel-come -to -Holland speeches wereonly a sample of the adulationwhich was to follow.

After a hectic day's rehear-sal with the Avro studio orches-tra under Jos Cleber, and theshow which followed, Lita re-ceived a phone call from theDutch War Ministry asking herif she could be so kind as tosupply pin-up pictures for themany Dutch soldiers in hos-pital who had been unable toget to the show but had heardthe broadcast.

Similar requests were alsoreceived from several civilianhospitals.

Lita arrived back in thiscountry by air on Wednesday-minus almost her entire stockof photographs, but richer byseveral thousand new-foundfriends

Derrick FrancisLeaves GeraldoNDIAN singer Derrick

I Francis. who has been withthe Geraldo Orchestra for two -and -a -half years, left the grouplast Sunday (12th) to free-lance.

Following his 250 BBC air-ings, his numerous recordingsand Luxembourg dates, it isnot surprising that Derrick hasalready received several offers.However, the NME learns thatDerrick has placed his futurerepresentation in the hands ofagent Harry Dawson, joiningsingers Harry Dawson andDiana Coupland under theDawson agency wing.

Among Derrick's first dateswill be a solo airing in " Ren-dezvous," which is recorded onOctober 21 for transmission onNovember 11.

DESPITE the fact that (as exclusively forecast in theNME) the Stanley Black Orchestra's 81 -year -old

BBC contract expires on January 3, listeners will still beable to hear the band on the air five times each week.

After the expiration of thecontract, the group will con-tinue to be used to accompanytwo radio shows, each with arepeat broadcast, and will playone dance music spot each week.These engagements will be onthe same basis as that onwhich any other big band isbooked for radio.

ONE-NIGHTERS" I shall be doing one-night

stands each week. on Thursdays,Fridays and Saturdays," Stanleytold the NME. " The Saturdaybookings will have to be near'town, as we shall be recordingone radio show on Saturdaymornings and doing the otheron Sundays.

I have already fixed one-nighters in such widely separa-ted places as Hammersmith.Grimsby. Southsea. Cardiff andHarrogate.

" I shall be using strings formy radio appearances," Stanleycontinued, " and also for a TVseries which I hope to be doingsometime in the New Year.

LINE-UP" There is one point which I'd

like to make quite clear to yourreaders and to prospectivebookers; the band which I shalluse on one-night engagementswill be identical with that usedfor radio work-minus thestrings, of course.

" The personnel will be verysimilar to that of my presentorchestra, though there are, ofcourse, bound to be a fewchanges.

" The basic line-up," he went

on, " will be five saxes, sixbrass and three rhythm; vocal-ists will be Diana Coupland andTohnny Eager, and possiblyanother male singer as well."

Agent Maurice Kinn told usthat the " only -three -nights -a -week " policy for one-nightershas been dictated by the factthat Stanley will be doing aconsiderable amount of workfor films.

Present indications are thatwill be composing and direct-

, ing music for. and appearing in,four to five films per year: hehas just completed two films," Top Secret " and a re -make of" Hindle Wakes," for which hecomposed and conducted thescores.

The Black recording contractwith Decca continues until 1954;he will also be appearing withhis orchestra on Radio Luxem-bourg next year, accompanyingVera Lynn.

LAWRENCE DISBANDS

"T HE Band That Is Stay-ing At Home To Go

Places." So NME New Yorkcorrespondent Bill Cossdescribed the new ElliotLawrence Band in an articlein our issue of June 27.

Now it seems that the bandthat stayed at home got noplace after all-for in a crypticcable from New York this week,Bill Coss simply informedus " Elliot Lawrence hasdisbanded."

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Petula Clarke, star of screen, stage, radio and records,shares a cup of tea with David Lavender, writer of the

topical new number " Anytime Is Tea Time."

FILM -STAR PROJECT TOBRING SATCHMO HERE

" 0 UIS ARMSTRONG for London" ! That may beLtrue at last, if film -star -impresario Jose Ferrer,

currently here, can snare " Satchmo " into taking over thelead opposite blues singer Pearl Bailey in his proposedEuropean presentation of " Cabin in the Sky."

This is due for production in London in the New Year.It is known that Ferrer has

already made overtures inStockholm to Louis, whosemanifold abilities as singer,actor and jazz musician he haslong admired.

Pearl Bailey leaves New Yorkon the Queen Mary " nextWednesday (22nd). A fellowpassenger will be blues -singingguitarist Big Bill Broonzy, enroute to the London Jazz Club.

Ivor Mairants and his JazzAcademy group record a pro-gramme for Jimmy Grant's

London Jazz " series nextWednesday (22nd).

NEW BANDTomorrow (Saturday) the

newly -formed Kenny ClarkeOrchestra will be introduced todancers at the Royal Pier,Southampton. Kenny takes overfrom Bill Proctor's group whichhas been playing there for thesummer season. Kenny, ontenor, leads Bob Willis and RoyCompton (altos): Ted Soper(tenor): Mike Kuhne (bari-tone); Pete Pemble (trumpet);Charlie Goodwin (piano);Barry Smith (bass) and MikeHutton (drums).

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HARRY GOLD'S CLARINETHURT IN ROAD SMASH

WHILE travelling through the Kentish countryside onhis motor -cycle recently, Harry Gold clarinettist

Ernie Tomasso was involved in a collision with a cardriven by a woman, and was seriously injured.

He was at once rushedto hospital, where an immedi-ate operation was performedfor the removal of one kneecap.

Ernie does not expect to leavethe hospital for at least sixweeks, and in the meantime hewill be pleased to hear from

TWO of Scotland's most popu- his friends in the profession.lar modern groups - one The address is : Romney

instrumental, the other vocal- Ward, West Kent General Hos-will be together in a " Workers' pital, Maidstone, Kent.Playtime " b r o a dc a s t on No replacement for Ernie hasOctober 30. yet been fixed.

The instrumental group:-Alex Shaw (piano); Ian Mac -Lachlan (bass); Bill McNab(guitar) and Alan Stewart(drums). Yes, it's the AlanStewart Quartet yet again-adding a further airing to theenviable total this outfit fromGlasgow's Locarno Ballroomhave already racked up.

And the vocal group :-Kenand Celia Flower, VinceO'Hagen and Les Want-a four-some that make up " The Ken -tones," close -harmony outfitwhich, in addition to wowingthe customers at Tommy Mor-gan's summer show in thePavilion, Glasgow, have elicitedpraise from no less a set ofauthorities than the MerryMacs.

MODERN SCOTSTEAM FOR

AIRING

BLIND PIANISTBOOSTS HIS OWN

CHARITYJOINING top Scots comedian

Jimmy Logan in his currentseries of Sunday concerts isGordon Laird, well-knownLanarkshire pianist.

Gordon will be appearing atLogan's Kilmarnock one-nighter first, on Sunday, Octo-ber 19.

The concerts are in 4.id ofvarious charities. This par-ticular one is in aid of theGuide Dogs for the BlindAssociation.

Gordon's appearance in theshow is, alas, very appropriatebecause he himself is blind anduses his own guide dog, "Judy,"to lead him to and from thepiano on his stage appearances.

Around the Hamilton andMotherwell areas, GordonLaird and his Orchestra is keptvery busy fulfilling dance dates.

The SuncLly appearance withLogan is not only an additionalstint for Gordon but also, as heunderstandably says, "a niceboost for my favouritecharity.. .."

HARROW SMASHMISSED BYMINUTES

WHEN tenor -leader PatBateson and his Band

arrived back at Euston theother day after their Irish tour,they complained that the trainwas two hours late.

But-" You're lucky to behere at all," they were told.

Your train missed the Harrowcrash disaster by only sixminutes l" There were no moregrumbles.

The group's tour-coveringDublin, Cork, Er,nis, Limerickand Warrenport (NorthernIreland) - was so successfulthat a return engagement inFebruary is already arranged.

Recent additions to the bandare Laurie Morgan on drumsand Johnny Weed on piano.

FRANKLYN BOYDJOINS RABIN

FRANKLYN BOYD, Colum-bia's recording soloist, joins

the vocal strength of OscarRabin at the Lyceum, Strand,London, on November 3, sixdays after his contract withEric Winstone expires.

Frankie started his singingcareer with Teddy Foster andhas since sung with PaulFenoulhet, Kathy Stobart, andfor the past eighteen monthswith Eric Winstone.

Dickie Wellsin Belgium

TROMBONIST Dickie Wells-I- has arrived in Belgium toplay at a jazz concert in Brus-sels on October 26.

This star of such bands asthose of Cab Calloway, FletcherHenderson, Lionel Hampton.Don Redman, etc., will befeatured with other Americanpersonalities including trum-peter Bill Coleman and drum-mer Zutty Singleton.

Alan FollowsMary

ALAN LLOYD, husband ofGracie Cole's altoist Mary

Louis, has followed his wife'sexample by leaving the AlanRoss Orchestra at the Grandt-son Ballroom, Norbury.

He rejoins Alan Hurst atBrighton. and is replaced atNorbury by Bob Roberts.

Other news is that Ross hassigned trumpeter Freddy Pagefrom George Crow.

EASTCOTE. - Lucky localmusician is drummer ArthurAcred, currently with WynfordPhillips' Orchestra at the " ClayPigeon " here. Recently Arthurbecame engaged to attractive19 - year - old Windmill girlAngela Osborn. whose shapelyfigure currently adorns " Revu-deville No. 252."

Arthur and Angela met in aDrury Lane rehearsal room andwere later with " Gay Time " atNewquay. They plan to marrynext year.

CHEAM.- Regent PalaceHotel maestro Peter Legh. isagain presenting his MayfairOrchestra at Cheam Baths forthe local Sutton and CheamCouncil's winter season ofdances, commencing this Satur-day. October 18.

Fronting the band at this-opular Surrey ballroom willbe Johnny Farley, who this=simmer was MD at the FestivalGardens.

Peter's Mayfair Orchestra con-tinues to be featured at theTrocadero Restaurant eachSunday evening as it has beenfor the past three years.

TWO MOREBANDS FORNFJO BALL

WITH the NFJO's OctoberJazz Band Ball only three

days away, two additionalbands have been added to theattractions already lined up forthis annual jazz feast.

Monday night's 4i -hour pro-gramme will now include theGoodman -style jazz of theDave Shepherd Quintet withvocalist Jo Searle, plus the" modern Dixieland " music ofBobby Mickleburgh's Bobcatsfrom London's Club Creole.

As previously reported, theother bands playing will bethose of Mick Mulligan, FreddyRandall and the Crane River,with a guest star attraction inthe person of blues singer IreneScruggs. Singers George Mellyand Neva Raphaello will alsobe featured.

The Ball lasts from 7.30 tomidnight, and tickets can beobtained from the NFJO. 18,rimbercroft Lane, Plumstead,S.E.18, or at the door.

Name BandsFor Midlands

MIDLANDS promoter ArthurKimbrell reports further

name band bookings during thelast two weeks of October. JackParnell's Music Makers will beappearing at- a dance at St.George's Ballroom, Hinckley,on the 18th. and at a concertat Victoria Hall. Hanley, on the19th.

The 18th also sees the VicLewis band at Nantwich CivicHall.

The Eric Winstone band is atNuneaton New Co-operativeHall on the 23rd, and at St.George's Ballroom, Hinckley,the following day.

Saturday. 25th, the band is atNantwich Civic Hall, and playsa Sunday concert at Hanleynext day.

READING NEWSVARIETY at the Palace

Theatre, Reding, hasrecently taken a turn for thebetter in the musical depart-ment. All this week PalaceTheatre audiences have beentE king the opportunity of hear-ing the inimitable Issy Bonn,with his own particular brandof melody.

Commencing next Monday(20th) Billy Thorburn will besupporting Nat Mills and Bobbiewith his special brand of piano -melody, whilst a week Monday(27th) Nat Gonella will paywhat is probably his first visitto the Palace Theatre.

Local dance bands too, aregetting the breaks. The bigannual Ball run by the ReadingConservatives will be held atthe Olympia on Friday next(24th) at which Don Turk andhis Music will play, whilst to-night (Friday) also at theOlympia the Teen -Can -Teen Re-opening Ball will be held withDon Turk again in attendance.

This caters more specially forReading's youth. The Society ofLccal Yokels will hold the mostnopularBall of the year onFriday, October 31, when theirannual Halloween Ball willbe held at the Olympia.

As last year, Don Turk andMax Seeburg and his Band willshare the stage for this "plum"


THE WORLD OF JAZZSaturday, October 11,5 to 5.30 p.m. Light

THE title of the previous± series, " Jazz Club," wasapparently not quite highfalutin enough to satisfy theselect members of our pioushierarchy, so as a result wemust now move the radio fromthe drawing room into thestudy to receive the profoundcontent of " The World of Jazz."

On the other hand, afterhearing this episode I shouldimagine that most listenerswould be inclined to situate itin a smaller, but much moreappropriate, spot !

Taking the programme as awhole, if there's ever been ahalf-hour that had less to offerlicence -holders than this, Ripleyshould hear about it.

CranksApart from the general listen-

ing public, or even those whoare not averse to jazz in theuncommercial manner, itseems incredible that anyone atall should have their intelli-gence insulted by an offeringthat catered for " collecting "cranks, and jazz sycophantswho believe anything, if they'retold loud and long enough.

The first part of the show,admittedly, presented records,etc., of honest - to - goodnessAmerican Negro folk music,and undoubtedly Charles Chil-ton spent a lot of time in re-search to procure them, butsurely, kind sir, 5 p.m. Saturday,on the Light programme, is theleast fitting time, if any, tosatisfy the desires of a few wholike to hear the primitive musi-cal outpourings of a frustratedand unhappy people takingconsolation in religion.

That modern jazz had itsroots here is an accepted fact,but otherwise Mr. Chilton'schore should take its placeamongst other educative fare onthe Third Programme (avecM. Preston et cie).

The second phase was pro-vided by Mr, Ernest Borneman.There is also a place for that,on much less hallowed ground.

4 WorkshopInformed that this was the

result of an experiment thatemanated from the eminentgentlemen's "Jazz Workshop,"I can only comment on itshowling success, and suggestthat he cashes in on the idea atonce, by selling it to the pro-dur^fr of the' " Goon Show."

The wholttYnovel effect of thisgem of origmality was to gathertogether a group of musicianswho have acquired some repu-tation on their respective in-struments, and then make themplay on something entirely dif-ferent!

Jazz today, we were told, isdull-Armstrong, Parker andKenton-who wants to playlike them ? What we need is anew sound, and Mr. Bornemanhas it.

Humphrey Lyttelton on flugelhorn; Wally Fawkes, bass clari-net; Freddy Grant, flute; BillJones, harpsichord, and as thereis not much the jazz workshop

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Sid Phillips and StephaneGrappelly and their groups areto play at a dance at SeymourHall on Saturday, November 1.It is being run by the JointSocial Committee of Nos. 30and N 76 St. John AmbulanceBrigade, who in the past havepresented E d mun do Ros.Geraldo. Harry Gold and PhilCardew's Corn Huskers.

South -East London band-leader Lew Robinson hasopened the " Sydenham ModernMusic Club," meeting everyThursday at the "Fox andHounds," Kirkda le Sydenham.Resident is Lew Robinson's owngroup. which features 16 -year -old alto -man Barry Robinson.

BOOK ME ASPACE -SHIP!JACK BENTLEY,reviewing the week'sradio, finds a pro-gramme that makeshim want to fly awayfrom " The World

of Jazzcould engineer for Lenny Bushand Tony Kinsey, they wereallowed td remain normal. Theonly disappointment was theabsence of Jimmy Edwards oneuphonium !

No, there's not the least doubtabout it. This was anything butdull. Of course, there are peoplewho pay a pound a year whomight have a different sense ofhumour.

Opinion: The World of Jazz ?Book me a spaceship.

JACK PARNELL AND HISORCHESTRA

Friday, October 10,3 to 3.45 p.m. Light

FIRST things first, so let mecongratulate Mr. Parnell on

having the good sense to ex-change his signature tune fromthe dreary dirge that was, forthe bright and fitting musicaltag of " Jack's Back."

This, I presume, being in re-sponse to a little well-meaningcriticism-a sensible trait thatshould ensure his success andthe unlikelihood of anyonewishing to see the back of Jack!

This is still the band withthe beat that's " mostest on theball." The rhythm section cantake most credit for such ahappy state of affairs althoughthe front line, which has alwaysexuded that air of youthfulexuberance, rides well andform a well -knit partnership.

I always had a sneaking feel-ing that the JP group weremore than dependent on theterrific drive of trumpeterJimmy Watson. On this broad-cast, however, it was quiteobvious that in spite of the factthat his absence could be felt,there was no sign of a crisis,and his deputy, Albert Hall,stepped into the breach quitenobly. If it was the samegentleman who acted as soloistalso, the compliment is two-fold.

High StandardOther soloists maintaining a

high standard were trombonistKen Wray and alto playerDerek Humble.

Whilst on the instrumentalslant, a surprising feature isthat whereas the JP job isalways subconsciously regardedas a hotbed of brass, it wasthe saxes as a section that werethe most impressive. Forceful,yet tuneful, they showed signsof intensive rehearsal and en-thusiastic co-operation.

Vocally, my enthusiasmwanes.

Our maestro appeared toemerge the most successful,with much improved dictionand a style that stays right withthe beat.

Maurice Allen somehow justmisses the boat, and the beat aswell, and the rather timidefforts of Lorna Haven didn'tsound very comfortable en-sconced in a band of such pro-pensities.

The arrangements were of akind that showed full under-standing of the material onhand to portray them.

As a contrast, the IvorMairants guitar group tickledtheir way, but not my palate.

Opinion : The bandsman'sband.

TITO BURNS AND HISBAND

Tuesday, October 14,12 to 12.30 p.m. Light

AS much as it's a recognisedfact that bands must bow

to the edict of commercialism ifthey want to survive as regu-lar broadcasters, it is also ac-cepted that if an outfit containsespecial intrumental talent, itshould be used.

Tito Burns, whose apprecia-tion of stylish jazz has beenmuch admired in the past, seemsto have gone to the greatestlengths to prevent even a glim-mer of it appearing.

Much publicity was given tohis statement that out of themany trumpeters auditioned toreplace Albert Hall, none werecapable of coping.

On today's hearing, the littlework there was to do on anyinstrument, could have beendone by many hundreds of theprofession.

Mainly VocalFor instance, the inclusion of

trombone star Harry Rochewould not only surprise manylisteners, but only on carefulhearing was it possible toknow that this instrumentexisted in the group. Unlessthis was a coincidence today, itwould seem that the gatheringtogether of such top classplayers was a waste of timeand money.

It was a pity that Mr. Burnshad to mention Billy Cottonduring his announcing, for itdrew attention to the fact thathe was trying to emulate hispolicy, and in spite of Mr. B'ssimilar perkiness, lack ofmaterial and too much band -room chit-chat made compari-sons somewhat odious.

The accent, therefore, beingmainly vocal, it would be aswell to confine any other com-ment to the purveyors of wordsand music.

Terry Devon, I do, and alwayshave liked immensely.

Paul Vaughan passes muster.but would be much more athome in the American Legion.

Tito hirnself,' with a warm

personality and a wealth ofexperienced musicianship, incommon with many other band-leaders,. is handicapped by' nothaving much of a voice.

Coleridge Goode, excels innonsensical asides, but as afull chorus vocalist ? I don'tthink so. Incidentally, Mr.Goode, the electric bass morehindered than helped.

Throughout the show, Icouldn't cast off the feelingthat the whole approach seemedto be aimed more at visualthan aural entertainment.

Opinion: Television, maybe ?

VARIETY AHOYThursday, October 9,7 to 7.30 p.m. Home

VVE included this show for.11- review because, theoretically,it was mostly composed ofmusical acts. In practice itturned out to be something ofa masquerade and a good op-portunity to point out justwhat hardships our gallantfighting forces have to face evenin times of peace!

Unfortunately, although itwas the Royal Navy that had tobear the brunt of things, HomeService listeners were on the

receiving end as well.Of course, it might be that

the case of the former it W sa premeditated plan conceivedby the BBC to keep the boysin fighting mood, but in thatcase it should have been con-fined to barracks.

Starting off with an organistwho sounded as if he weremanning the pumps, the man onthe bridge then announcedthrough his duffle coat that theywere about to be boarded by theSong Pedlars.

Doubtlessly remembering thatthe fleet would be commandedby an American, this partytried to overcome him withnostalgia viz Yankee songs andaccents.

Their intonation should havesufficed.

A Cold Night?The second wave was pro-

vided by Tommy Riley plusharmonica. He tried the tech-nique of blinding them withscience.

A few tunes they knew mighthave won them over withoutdifficulty.

Next came two gentlemenwhose bubbling vocalism rathergave one the impression thatthey were frogmen. The pointsin their " point " numbers, how-ever, were of a much older andconsiderably less subtle device,

Finally, the oldest trick inthe world was tried. Subjectionby feminine wiles.

Once again it was an unfor-tunate choice for, whatevershe might have otherwise in theway of talent, Miss Innesshowed that there was littlecharm that day in Charmian.

The whole operation was re-ceived with much applause,shouting and whistling. I canonly think it must have been avery cold night.

Opinion: A good excuse forthe Fleet getting "lit up."

* *Thou NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Another decisive decision forthe Ambrose comeback.

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THE NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS

THE QUEEN OF THE IVORIES

IS COMING HERErby JAMES-

ASMAN

THE forthcoming visit toBritain of Mary Lou

Williams early in Decemberbrings this neglected pianistinto the limelight once more.

She is known over here forher brilliant work with theAndy Kirk band, althoughseveral of her solo pianosides have been released inthis country from time totime. Notably " Drag 'Em "on Brunswick 02507, " Sweet(Patootie) Patunia " / " TheRocks " on Brunswick 03009and the Columbia issue of"Clean Pickin' " and"Swingin' For Joy"(DS.5oo3).

HINES-KIRKMary Lou Williams was born

42 years ago in Pittsburgh, Pa.,and began studying classicalmusic before she had left school.

The keyboard work of veteranEarl Hines turned her talentstowards jazz. By 1925 she hadplayed on the Orpheum theatrecircuit with an act calledSeymour and Jeanette as apianist, and entered the musicalprofession seriously a year laterwhen she joined John Williams'Syncopators.

Mary Lou found the jazz shewas called upon to play excitingenough but John Williams provedeven more attractive. She

married him and stayed with theoutfit until 1928.

It wasn't until she was offeredthe piano stool with the currentlysuccessful Kansas City groupled by bass saxophonist AndyKirk in 1929 that her real chancecame. Andy Kirk's TwelveClouds of Joy had alreadystirred the jazz field with a fewearly pieces like " Honey JustFor You " (Brunswick 01054)and " Corky Stomp " (Bruns-wick 01211) by '28.

The resultant improvementaused by the new pianist's finerrangements, plus the superb

silos she featured, began to havean effect and by 1936 the bandhad left its native Kansas Cityfor extensive tours which addedconsiderably to its popularityand fame.

RECORDINGSBy this time its records were

attracting a great deal of favour-able comment from critics, parti-cularly "Christopher Columbus"/" Froggy Bottom " (ColumbiaDB.5000) and " Moten Swing "on Columbia DB.5o15.

Every review heaped praiseon the dark head of Andy Kirk'syoung pianist -arranger, MaryLou Williams.

One of her celebrated record-ing dates was behind BluesSinger Mildred Bailey in 1939.examples of which are stillremembered with " ArkansasBlues " (Parlophone R.2685)a n d " Barrelhouse Music "(R.2692).

Amongst the last swing discsshe made with the Kirk outfitwere two gay numbers, " BigTime Crip " and " 47th StreetJive " on Brunswick 03293.

By 1942 she was leading herown small group, and the" revivalist " movement hadswept her out of favour with

A

PORTRAIT

OF THE

GREAT

U.S.

PIANIST-

SINGER

Mary Lou Williamsthe jazz public. A year laterfound her arranging for DukeEllington himself, the sincerestcompliment of all to her abilityas a composer and arranger.

Another fardous swing bandleader to use her talents wasBenny Goodman. Her pen canbe traced on several Goodmanband recordings.

In the last io years little hasbeen heard of her over here.She experimented in the modernHarlem idiom for some time.The powerful Kansas City swingof the Negro orchestra of AndyKirk had fallen from grace beforethe advanced chords and har-monic experiments of the newmodern school.

Mary Lou Williams' riding,graceful music was too delicate,too tasteful to mix with theextreme moderns, and it wasnever of the earthy ragtimeschool beloved of the purist.

It blended with the greatNegro big band era of goodswing music which gave usBenny Moten, Count Basis,Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunce-ford, Fletcher Henderson, DonRedman, Luis Russell, and, ofcourse, Andy Kirk.

The fruity, rich days of the1930's will be remembered witha certain amount of genuinenostalgia when one of itsgreatest stars hits these jazz -starved shores.

THEdate for the new Annual

General Meeting of theNFJO is now fixed. As theprevious AGM was declared il-legal by the newly appointedCommittee voted in on a blockon September 14, the comingmeeting has also been fixed atthe same place, the MapletonRestaurant in Coventry Street.

The date is definitely Novem-ber 23 and the " session " willrun from 11 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

The NFJO Secretary is al-ready contacting all memberclubs eligible to attend.

(-NINE of the most significant- happenings in the Britishjazz world took place last week-end when Blues singer IreneScruggs took the Crane RiverJazz Band in hand for pre-NFJO October Jazz Ball re-hearsals in Soho.

Unknown to the musicians,Irene was a seasoned band-leader and producer. Her orig-inal scores and coaching led thepurist Cranes into unknownterritory and her experienceand understanding turned theminto proficient accompanists.

Assisted by her daughterBaby Scruggs, she directed theband through unfamiliar chordchanges with numerous anec-dotes on the palmy days ofearly Chicago. Her knowledgeof jazz and jazz musiciansproved a revelation.

Whilst the NFJO suffers from

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THE JAZZ SCENEinternal troubles mainly due toMU intervention last June whenthey attempted to introduceAmerican jazz stars to Britainit is perhaps significant thatthe last promotion by the oldCommittee should feature themost important contribution tolocal jazz yet made.

It is Irene's long -reaching ex-perience in jazz as well as herundoubted ability to convey thefruits of it to a bunch ofLondon jazz musicians whichmakes her so important. Thefact that she is likely to remainover here for some time yetmerely underlines her value tothe British jazz scene.

It is to be hoped that beforelong, on the strength of her per-formance on Monday at theHammersmith Palais which iscertain to be nothing short ofsensational, some of our mostenterprising promoters will uti-lise her superb talents.

* *THE Portsmouth Rhythm Club

reopened on Monday, Octo-ber 6, at their new premises atthe " Sir Robert Peel " to acapacity crowd. Star of the ses-sion was Doreen Nutter, guest-ing from the Brighton Jazz Clubwith down to earth blues andpiano playing.

Also featured as an additionalattraction were the Bermudians,a coloured quartet boasting ahome-made bass created out ofpacking case, a guitar and someclose harmony vocals.

The resident band, Ron Male'sJazzmen, presented a pro-gramme of " Chicago Jazz." Thefollowing week's bill included aspot for the modernist memberswith the debut of the TerryFlinn Quintet. Compere FrankHurlock capably emceed bothmeetings.

AT the Nottingham RhythmClub's fortnightly record

sessions Vogue chief DougWhitton gave an interestingrecital, including some of hisown company's coming releases,on Tuesday, October 14. OnOctober 28 bandleader MickGill is booked to presentanother " Mixed Grill " follow-ing the success of his previousone last year. The venue is the" Lion Hotel " in Clumber St.

* * *JAZZ promoter Jimmy

Godbolt, now running hisown agency looking after boththe Mick Mulligan MagnoliaJazz Band and the Crane River,has left his office with LynDutton and can be found offTottenham Court Road at 42,Tottenham Street, W.1.

* * *CECRETARY Don Gisborne of" the Polytechnic Jazz Clubin Regent Street is appealingfor musicians for his mid -dayjam sessions. The time is be-tween 12.45 p.m. and 1.45 p.m.,and the audience one of very

appreciative University stu-dents.

* * *WITH the resignation of

trumpeter and bandleaderGordon Bostock f r o m theCoventry Jazz Club residentgroup, Cy Smith takes over. Cycomes from the Midland JazzClub in Birmingham and headsthe new band, now known asthe Godiva Jazz Band. " Bubs "Potter is on trombone, MacRandle on clarinet and soprano.Bernard Overton, piano; GeoffFaulkner with his bass and" Uncle" John Astle at thedrums. Ben Arnold is handlingthe Blues singing department.

* * *NEW trumpeter with the

Crane River Jazz Band isthe Wood Green Stompers dis-covery, Vic Roberts. Vic is afamiliar figure around the Cran-ford Jazz Club for he has beenan ardent supporter of theCranes for a year or so. Heshares his horn playing with hiseveryday job of catering-hehappens to own his own res-taurant in Willesden.

Band manager Ken Lindsaysays of him: " Vic has consider-ably strengthened the band andeveryone will be agreeably sur-prised by his attack and range."He makes his first public ap-pearance with the Cranes at theOctober Jazz Ball on Monday.October 20.

Meanwhile the band visit ClubSatchmo at Edgware on Sun-day. Their recent trips therehave been an outstanding suc-cess and, as a result, it is ru-moured that they have beenoffered the resident job.

COLLECTORS'

COMMENTARYTHE Graeme Bell Band

is now a Sextet. Thiscame about when BudBaker and Kanga Bentleyleft soon after landinghome in Australia. WithAde Monsbourgh doublingvalve -trombone and alto,the group completed atriumphant tour of severalstates winding up in Mel-bourne where they're con-centrating on radio, re-cording, and play ingtsociety balls.

Graeme's "RockingHorse Rag ", composed inLondon on HumphreyLyttelton's piano, is prov-ing a worthy successorto his English - recorded" Black and White Rag ",which has swept thecountry with almost dailyairings over the radio.Graeme is shortly to starthis own DJ show for ABCto feature European jazz.*

Humphrey Lyttelton andhis Band made history atthe Parlophone studioslast week by playing theirrepertoire in one chunkstraight on to tape, thuseliminating the wastedenergy of recording titleby title, often with severaltakes of each.

Testimonial for the tech-nique is that the boys.were better able to relaxand looked far fresherafter the session, whichoccupied little more than'half the usual time.*

The USA certainly takesits jazz education seriously.Following the lead set byNew York, Yale, and Min-nesota. no less than thirtyAmerican universities areincluding jazz courses inthe autumn curriculum.Most are based on Profes-sor Marshall Stearns'" Perspective In Jazz " lec-tures given at N.Y. Uni-versity, which run thegamut from jazz prehistoryto theory on the music'sfuture. *

A translation of the" Friends of Fats " news-sheet. having its origin inLondon, now goes out to" Les Amis de Fats " inFrance. Plans are under-way for editions in Ger-man, Italian, and Spanishto serve " FoF's " in othercountries. *

Wonder how many ofyou picked up the LouisArmstrong concert fromGermany on Saturdaynight ... and were treatedto a nostalgic memory ofthe pre-war JimmieLunceford Band? TrummyYoung played and sang"Margie " almost phrasefor phrase as he did onthe band's 1938 record; butthe same routine soundeda bit thin on a six -piece.

What a motley crewLouis carries this trip !His lyrical lead seemedcompletely hamstrung byMarty Napoleon's jerky" modern -style " chordingand Cosy Cole's cymbal -jangling. Bob McCracken'sclarinet was somewherearound, but apparently de-tached from the ensembles.He seemed to spend all histime trying to find a wayin again. Yes, I wonder ifyou picked it up . . andmaybe sighed for the All -Stars ?

HECTOR STEWART.

PRIDAY, OCTOBttt 17, 1952 13

LEADING BRITISH BOPPERS GIVETHE 'MUSICIANS' VIEWPOINT ON

SOME NEW U.S. RECORDSLAST WEEK we reviewed

some new Ronnie Scottrecords.

THIS WEEK we invitedRonnie and the musicians herecorded with, to give theircomments on a new AmericanLP recently- acquired by your" Modern Mood !' men.

This was a " Blindfold Test "with a difference. All we knewwas the musicians'; names thatthey were young; that theycame from Selttle; and thatthese tracks were extracts froma 1951 jazz concert.

To our way of thinking, thisrecord will cause even morecontroversy over here than didthe first Bruebecks a year ago,and more recently, " TheChamp " which still evokesextremist comments in lettersfrom readers of this page.

' ATMOSPHERIC'In parts, these sides symbol-

ise all the elements which pro-voked Brian Gladwell to writea fighting letter to the NMElast week. The LP is almostthe complete antithesis of itstitle, " A Concert of Cool Jazz."

It's "atmospheric " jazz-withthe usual mixture of exagger-ated exhibitionism, musicalhumour, good and bad music,and audience hysteria, that goto make up the ingredients ofthe average jazz concert, especi-ally in the States. But it's per-formed with a crisp, cleanverve and vitality, the like ofwhich we haven't heard orenjoyed so much, for a longlong time. In a way, it's jazz" party" music-the kind youlike to hear when you're enjoy-ing yourself, and don't reallywant to listen too closely orcritically. It's happy-go-luckyjazz-and whether Brian Glad -well, you or we like it, there'sdefinitely a place in everymodernist's musical outlook forstuff like this.

SELF-EXPLANATORYThe titles are more self-

explanatory than they'd seemat first sight. Briefly (a) is afast swinging blues; (b) themost sincere in -tempo side, withgood (but prolonged) piano; (c)a boppish Highland Fling; (d)a crazy, pervertedly humoroushoe-down; (e) a rather lessthan more frantic " FlyingHome "; (f) a "'straight," out -of -tempo piano solo; (g) ash ifile twelve -bar, smacking

"A CONCERT OF COOL JAZZ"with the Cecil Young Quartet(a) " Race Horse "; (b) " Stom-pin' at the Savoy "; (c) " TheCampbell's Are Coming "; (d)" Formula X-9 "; (e) "Rushin'On Home "; (f) " Deep Purple ";(g) "Cecil's House Party Blues";(h) " Tribute to Al Benson."Personnel: Cecil Young (piano);Gerald Brashear (tenor, bon-goes); Trafford Hubert (bass);

Jimmy Rodgers (drums)Recorded June, 1951. King

(American) LP 295-1eilneresssinferSPOSesii.drie~ieerieSreridraridellne

of " r. and b."; and (h) is theSymphony Sid " riff (Al Ben-

son is a rival D -J !).We asked along Ronnie Scott,

Dill Jones, Lennie Bush, TonyCrombie and Tony Kinsey. Allbut Lennie made it, and MartinAston " depped " for him.

THESE ARE SOME OF THETHINGS THEY SAID ...

Ronnie : " Commercially, thisis very successful-but music-ally, it's insincere and inart-istic. There's nothing new.Jacquet, or Hampton's varioustenors would have done it somuch better. There's no depth-just four happy guys blowing.The tenor gets a nice sound, onthe whole, and has a good tech-nique. His tonguing's amazing;never heard anything like itbefore. Is it good? Well, it'sdifficult !"

Dill : " The whole thingsimply generates excitementand atmosphere. It's very enter-taining and humorous, and thesort of record I'd like to havearound the flat. The pianist'sextremely good ; his Deep

Purple' is most artistic. As astylist, well, he's assimilatedthe mannerisms of Garner,Tatum and Nat Cole, andstrings them together mostconvincingly."

Kinsey : " This is a muchmore typical reflection of anAmerican jazz audience's tem-perament than that shown at,say, a Charlie Parker concert.It's the little things that knockthem out. If English boys hadput on a concert like this,there'd have been much moregood music, as opposed torather shallow, hysterical gim-micks. Comparing it with TheChamp'? That was full ofgood jazz !"

CONTROVERSIALCrombie : "They're all compe-

tent musicians, and I think theycould prodice much better jazz"(Ronnie disagreed with this)." I'm fed up with art for art'ssake-this is art for the people'ssake, and there's a big marketfor it. As bop, it's all been saidbefore, and the gimmicks re-flect the poverty of ideas incurrent American jazz trends.The pianist's wonderful, but it'sobviously his group !"

Martin : As entertainment,it's most successful, and helpsbring jazz to the people-whowon't miss the real jazz contentthat it lacks for the musician.But it hasn't the depth or sin-cerity of the Jimmy Wither-spoon or Helen Humes sides."

GENERAL VERDICT. Con-troversial (but good) atmo-sphere stuff, with jazz contentaimed more at the fans thanmusicians-and, as such, wellworthy of inclusion in yourcollection. We think you'd enjoyit.

TONY HALL andMIKE BUTCHER.

A TRISTANO MYSTERYSOLVED

TNresponse to our Lennie Tristanstory of a couple of weeksago (" When Did Lennie Make These ?" NME 3/10/52), reader

John McKellen, of London, W.14, has come forward with a likely -looking explanation.

John refers us to LeonardFeather's "Inside Bebop" which ness some five years ago. Noincludes a short Tristano bio- titles are listed, and it is statedgraphy, and mentions disc that the masters passed over todate made for Majestic, a com- Mercury Records.pany which went out of busi- However, the jacket of Len-

nie's newly -issued Royale LPgives details of other materialavailable on the same label,and much of this definitelycomes from the Majestic reper-toire.

Furthermore, the trade -nameRoyale is known to be the prop-erty of Eli Oberstein, who wasclosely associated with theMajestic concern. So, puttingtwo and two together... .

CHUBBY JACKSON?Reader McKellen agrees with

us that the bassist here heardwith Lennie does not sound atall like Arnold Fishkin, andsuggests that it may possibly beChubby Jackson, who was quiteclosely associated with Tristanoin 1947, the probable year ofrecording.

It is interesting to note thatone of the titles, " Supersonic,"includes a short bass solo, some-thing which we have never pre-viously come across in any ofLennie's conceptions.

Our correspondent finallyoffers to send us details of otherlittle-known Tristano waxings.Offer accepted, John !

Hedley Ward's Players who are resident at the HotelBristol, Newquay, toast saxist Dolbey Roberts (centre) onthe birth of his son Adrian. The others are (1 to r) : FrankTaylor, John Hannah, George Robinson and Norman

Jager (leader).

THE JAMBOREE FANSACCLAIM CALLOWAY

TAKEN to the Jazz Jamboree as guest1 of the NME last Sunday, bandleader

and " Porgy and Bess " star Cab Callo-way said that he enjoyed every minuteof listening to the cream of Britishbands, and expresseddelight and amazementat their high standard.

Introduced to theaudience b y RayEllington, Cab wasgiven a tremendousovation, and here he isacknowledging t h echeers.

Another NME guestat the show was ex -Lionel Hampton trum-pet -player HowardRoberts, who also starsin the " Porgy " epic.

HALL -MARKSTony Hall's Modern Gossip

Jamboree Night Jazz, What anight for the fans! Didn't getto Feldman's, where a packedhouse greeted a galaxy of stars,but Ted Heath put up the" House Full" sign (as usual)at the Palladium. The '51 hadits largest -ever crowd, and theParnell band showed all theywould have done earlier in theday at Kilburn, if they'd hadmore time.

Along at the Flamingo,another packed house cheeredthe debut of the " ChamberMusic Society of Lower RegentStreet." Ralph ("Haven't en-joyed myself so much foryears") Sharon led Joe Harriott(alto); Jimmy Skidmore (tenor)and Tony Crombie, who,though handicapped by the lackof a bassist, played the mostfantastic beat -y drums any-one's heard in ages.

By the end of the evening,J o hnny Dankworth, DonRendell, Eddie Harvey and EricDawson had joined the group,and how the crowd loved it !

Thank you, boys, for a won-derful evening's jazz.

*Looking back at the Jam-

boree, for me, " Old Man "Heath produced an ace of gim-micks with his drum feature,and really stole the show. Solohonours for my money went toBobby Pratt (surely one of thegreatest lead trumpets we'veever had) and flashes of Rendellgreatness with J.D.

* *VISITOR OF THE WEEK.-

Ever listen to the excellentMonday night jazz programmesfrom Frankfurt (506 metres)?Shows are organised by leadingGerman deejay, Horst Lippman,who was being shown the Lon-don jazz spots last week byBert Wilcox.

Horst is responsible for bring-ing American jazzmen to Ger-many, and after hearing himplay, he wants to sign RonnieScott fpr some Frankfurt con-certs this winter.

How about Kurt Edelhagenfor this country? Horst's shownext Monday (20th) featurespianists Bud Powell, Garner,Shearing and Andre Previn.Should be well worth hearing.

* *OUT AND ABOUT "THE

BUSINESS " last week, I met ...Kenneth Macleod, a most pro-

gressively -minded motion pic- guesting at Nottingham MMC.ture man, who hopes to film aseries of shorts in our leadingmodern clubs before the end ofthe year. " Taking a club to thestudio would be useless," hetold me. " The only way toreally capture the jazz atmos-phere is to bring the camerasto the club-and that's exactlywhat I intend to do."

THE THINGS THEY SAID-Eric ("Mr. Callaghan") Spear:

"Even Tito Burns played mysong, though I didn't recogniseit. They'd changed all thechords ! "

Johnny Dankworth (at theJamboree): "4n these days ofconstantly changing personnels,I was proud to be able to tellthe organisers that ours wasThe usual-exactly as last

year '." A nice gesture, John.(Incidentally, all the Seven'sofferings were " head " arrange-ments.)

* * *" Off The Envelope." A fav-

ourite young jazzman, TonyRussell, joins the Rabin Band atthe Lyceum next week on leadtrombone, replacing La u r iMonk. Good for Tony, andRabin.... Bop enthusiast BrianHarvey started weekly Thurs-day record sessions at theYMCA, Gt. Russell St., W.C.,last night (16th), when theNME's Jimmy Asman gave arecital. Doug Whitton's there onNov. 20, and your columnisthopes to do a show on Dec. 18.

. . Festival Hall (June) con-cert star Chuck Gates now onpiano with Roy Fox. . . Con-gratulations to Davie Wilkinson his recent marriage. . . .

One of Britain's best big -banddrummers longing for somesmall -band work is ex -Rabinand Squads Tommy Maxwell,back in town this week. Drum-mer Ralph Green's numberwrongly printed last week.Should be EUS 4758. . . .

New group doing gigs at WestDrayton USAF camp contains,among others, Gray Allard(tenor), Dave Goodman(drums) and a new vibesman,whom I'm told is extremelygood, Jerry McLoughlin, . . .

Dankworth pianist Bill le Sagerecently did a session with theParnell stars to the obvious en-joyment of all concerned... .

Talking of pianists, have youheard young Maurice Biella?He's good. . . . The '51 begin 5 -hour sessions on Sundays fromnext week, preceded by recordsessions, which will also be heldthere Monday nights. . . .

Sorry to hear that ReadingModern Music Club has closedthrough lack of support, butnearby Wokingham Club isdoing better business. Good forLeon Symonds. . . . Vic Ash

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decided that the fairest wayof having a typical one wasto stifle the impulse tochoose a night from theprinted programme, and in-stead to hear a completenight at random.

I found myself in the com-pany of Rosemary Clooney,"Hutch," Vera Lynn, GeorgeElrick, Brian Johnson, a coupleof serials, Vic Damone, PeterMadren, and Geoffrey Everett.

At a time when so manypeople in and out of the pro-fession contemplate sponsoredradio, I looked forward to thisevening as I settled down atshortly after 7 p.m., particu-larly since I had not heardLuxembourg since 1939.

ANONYMOUS BANDS !The night moaned and

shrieked of bad production.The " Hutch " programme,

however, was an infinite im-provement from every point ofview, except fcr the out -of -tuneguitar which seemed pointless,anyway.

Then came the new Vera -and what a great artist she is,with her orchestrations alwaysas sparkling and well conceivedas her English Rose vocal work.You can rely on me to buyBritish as long as you, MissLynn, continue to sell yourpresent delightful recipe.

My one criticism also appliesto the George Elrick showwhich followed; why the bigsecret as to the musical namesconnected with the programme?How can sponsors expect the

public to become followers ofanonymous orchestras andchoirs which they present?

" Hiltone "-your ladies willlove, and maybe use you moreif you have Vic Damone com-pere as well as sing your show.I'm sure he is the talking voiceyour audience wants.

If anyone could find a faultwith Peter Madren it is that hesometimes fails to make it quiteclear that he is presenting aprogramme of gramophone re-cords, as in the case of the EricWinstone spot.

The element of atmosphericscan confuse the most observantlistener into the illusion that heis listening to a recorded pro-gramme.

WHAT I MISSED" Highlights," in this case of

1933, is what it sounds, andquoting Max Bygraves, for noreason, " a good idea, son!"although I feel the person whoproduced the disc of "StormyWeather" to typify the periodshould be told that the TexBenecke version, made nearlytwenty years later was, to saythe least, inappropriate.

The evening ended with apleasant choice of records inGeoffrey Everett's " Tunes OfThe Time."

Upon glancing at my "RadioTimes," I find that I missed" Twenty Questions," " VarietyFanfare," " Gently Bentley,""Any Questions," the news, andAmbrose -oh! and half of theShow Band.

Did I make a good deal? Imust be honest . I don't thinkI did.

LUXEMBOURG(208 metres)

SUNDAY, October 197.30 p.m. Dick Haymes; 7.45 Winifred

Atwell; 8 Teddy Johnson, Pearl Carr,Morrie Paramor; 9 Carroll Gibbons andSavoy Hotel Orch; 9.15 Curt Massey,Martha Tilton; 10 Jo Stafford; 10.30Bing Sings; 11 Top Twenty; 12 Music atMidnight.MONDAY, October 20

7.30 p.m., Geraldo; 7.45, Betty Driverwith Ronnie Munro & Orch.; 8, Show -time from London Palladium; 10.30,Smash Hits; 11.30, Music At Bedtime.TUESDAY, October 21

7.30, Vaudeville; 7.45, Ian Stewart;9.45, Felix King; 10, Guess the Year,Malcolm Lockyer, Brian Johnson, MarieBryant; 10.15, Musical Chairs; 10.30,Bing Sings; 10.45 David Rose; 11.30Music at Bedtime.WEDNESDAY, October 22

7 p.m., Kathran Field, Ray HartleyQuartet; 7.30, Your Kind of Music;7.45, Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye;

8, What's My Line; 9.45, Curt Masseyand Martha Tilton; 10, Edmundo Ros;10.30, Tunes of the Times; 11.30, Musicat Bedtime.

THURSDAY, October 237 p.m., Anne De Nys and her Rhythm;

7.30, Vaudeville; 8, Opportunity Knocks;8.30, Movie Magazine; 9.45, Curt Masseyand Martha Tilton; 10 Archie Lewis10.15, Musical Chairs; 10.30, Bing Sings;10.45, Radio Luxembourg SymphonyOrchestra.FRIDAY, October 247.30 Petula Clark; 7.45 Hutch; 8Vera Lynn Sings; 8.30, George Elrick'sCavalcade of Music; 9.45, Vic Damone;10. Harry Gold; 10.15, Highlights; 10.30,Tunes of the Times.SATURDAY, October 25

7 p.m. Saturday's Requests; 8 PattiPage; 9 Scottish Requests; 9.30 Nev.Releases; 10.15 Irish Half Hour; 11.30Music at Bedtime.

AFN HIGHLIGHTS(344, 271 and 547 metres)

SUNDAYA.M.: 7.45 Music for You; 8 Request -

fully Yours; 10.10 Breakfast Club; 11.45Georgia Brown; 12.15 In the MillerMood; 12.30 Juke Box.

P.M. 2.30 Al Goodman's MusicalAlbum; 3 Highway of Melody; 5.30Record Parade of Hits; 6.5 Halls of Ivy;6.55 A Story and a Song; 7 MarioLanza; 7.30 Ozzie and Harriet; 7.55Premier of a Song; 8 Charlie McCarthy;8.30 The Big Show; 9.30 Gordon Macrae;9.55 Time Out; 11 One Night Stand;11.40 Vocal Touch; Midnight, Late Date.

MONDAYA.M. 7 Bandstand; 7.45 Western Song -

time; 8 Musical Scrapbook; 9 RepeatPerformance; 9.30 Dixieland Club; 9.45Music's No Mystery; 10.05 Merely Music;11 Hot Off the Record Press; 11.45 DaveGarroway; 12.10 Duffle Bag.

P.M.: 1.15 84th Army Dance Band;2.02 Latin-American Carnival; 2.30 Mon-day Blues; 5 Off the Record; 7 Music inthe Air; 8 The Aldrich Family; 8.30Arthur Godfrey; 9.15 Club Fifteen; 11.15Late Date (Part 1); Midnight Late Date(Part 2).

TUESDAYA.M.: Programme as before.P.M.: 2.45 Solitary Singer; 5 Off the

Record; 7 Music in the Air; 8.30 BingCrosby; 9.15 Peggy Lee; 9.30 FibberMcGee and Molly; 10 Hollywood Music

Hall; 11 Late Date (Part 1); MidnightLate Date (Part 2).WEDNESDAY,

A.M.: Programme as before.P.M.. 1.15 Piano Penthouse; 2.0.

Latin-American Carnival; 2.30 Jubilee.5 Off the Record; 7 Music in the Air8 Groucho Marx; 9.15 Club Fifteen; 11

Late Date (Part 1); Midnight Late Date(Part 2)

THURSDAYA.M.: Programme as before.P.M.: 5 Off the Record; 7 Music in

the Air; 8.30 Vaughn Monroe; 9.15Peggy Lee; 10 Musicland U.S.A.; 11.00Late Date (Part 1); Midnight Late Date(Part 2).FRIDAY

A.M.: Programme as before.P.M.: 5 Off the Record; 7 Music in

the Air; 8 Life with Luigi; 8.30 Martin& Lewis; 9.15 Club 15; 9.30 Bob Hope.10 Paul Weston; 11 Hot }louse; 11.30One Night Stand; Midnight Late Date.SATURDAY

A.M.: 7.30 Reveille Roundup; Fl Musi-cal Scrapbook; 8.30 At Ease; 9 RepeatPerformance; 10.05 Merely Music; 12.10Duffle Bag

P.M. 1.30 The Navy Hour; 5 Off theRecord; 7 Music in .the Air; 9.30 HitParade; 10 Night Beat; 11.25 Late Date(Part 1); Midnight Late Date (Part 2).

" Box Biographies"PAUL HEIMANN

BORN Vienna, June 1, 1924.Paul's parents were both

musicians. He started violinlesscns at the age of 6 andstudied for over four years.

On his 12th birthday Paulreceived his first piano accor-dion and became quite aproficient player.

1938 he came to Englandand within a little time wasplaying at Youth Centres, andformed his own outfit to playlocal dances.

Whilst doing important warwork Paul met Maurice Kinn,who booked him for the Poto-mac Restaurant leading hisown band on accordion. Hiswas one of the first groups tofeature tenor, clarinet andaccordion front line to give abig band noise.

1946, Johnny Dennis tookover the band which touredGermany, etc., and in 1948Paul reformed his own groupagain and is kept very busyplaying the less publicisedsociety gigs.

A very keen musician, Paulstudies conducting a n dgeneral musical knowledgeunder Barclay Wilson, at theGuildhall School of Music.Paul's band policy is goodmodern commercial music

combining Latin - Americannumbers.

Favourite Musician : ErnieFelice.

Favourite Record: " Stars InYour Eyes" by Joe Mooney.

Favourite Food : WeinerSchnitzel (Escalope to you!)

Hobby: Music and Motoring.Dislikes: The type of musi-

cian who decries commercialmusic.

Hopes for the future: Toown a Bentley !

BANDWeek beginni

CARL BARRITEAU AND BANDTo -night (Friday), Derby. Saturday.Fairford. Sunday, Cambridge. Thurs-day, Grimsby. Friday, Cheltenham.

FREDDY RANDALL AND BANDSaturday, Chester. Sunday, Hippo-drome, Derby. Monday, N.F.J.0. JazzBall, Hammersmith Palais. Friday,South Elmsall.

HARRY GOLD AND BANDTonight (Friday), King Lane Hall,Clitheroe. Saturday, Festival Hall,Kirby-in-Ashfield. Sunday, Carlisle.Monday, Liverpool. Tuesday, South-port. Wednesday, West Hartlepool.Thursday, Kendal. Friday, Newcastle -on -Tyne.

HARRY ROY AND BANDTonight (Friday) ,Cheltenham. Satur-day, Weston -super -Mare. Sunday, Bris-tol. Monday, week, Theatre Royal,Portsmouth.

HEDLEY WARD TRIOWeek, Empire, Hackney.

JOHNNY DANKWORTH SEVENTonight (Friday), Uxbridge. Saturday,Coronation Ballroom, Ramsgate, Sun-day, Odeon, Barking. Tuesday, Wim-bledon Palais. Wednesday, Studio 51.Friday, Royal Star Hotel, Maidstone.

RAY ELLINGTON 'QUARTETSunday, Theatre Royal, Bolton. Resi-dent, Cafe de Paris.

SID PHILLIPS' BANDFriday, Broadcast 3.0-3.45. Sunday,Broadcast and Hippodrome, Dudley.

SQUADRONAIRESSaturday, Broadcast. Sunday, Cardiff.Tuesday, Purley. Wednesday, Bourne-mouth. Friday, Nottingham.

TEDDY FOSTER'S BANDTonight (Friday), Ashton-under-Lyne.Saturday, Bedworth. Sunday, Warley.Wednesday, Broadcast. Friday, New-market.

TT1'0 BURNS SEXTETTonight (Friday), Keighley. Saturday,Darlington. Sunday, Burtonwood. Wed-nesday, Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl.

CALLng October 17

Thursday, Mapleton Club, CoventryStreet, London, W.I. Friday, CarltonHotel, Newmarket.

VIC LEWIS ORCHESTRASaturday, Civic Hall, Nantwich. Sun-day, Empire Theatre, Dewsbury. Wed-nesday, Rex Ballroom, Bognor.

WINIFRED ATWELLWeek, Hippodrome, Bristol.

BFN(219.4iMetres)

Additional items to theLight Programme

SUNDAY9.10 BFN Breakfast Club (Chris How-

land); 10 At Your Request; 11 DanceMusic; 12 Two -Way Family Favourites;5.30 Disc Doodling (Flotsam).MONDAY

8.15 Morning Music; 1.10 LuncheonDate at Record Club.TUESDAY

8.15 Morning Music; 11.15 A Pro-gramme of Music from Holland; 1.10Luncheon Date at the Record Club; 5Melody Highway; 5.45 Songs for Sale.WEDNESDAY

1.30 Recent Records (Chris Howland);2.15 Sentimental Journey (Dirk Bogard);6.15 The Younger Generation (MusicClub).THURSDAY

1.10 Luncheon Date at the RecordClub; 3 Thursday Tune -Time; 3.30 PianoPlaytime.FRIDAY

1.10 Luncheon Date at the RecordClub; 3 Dance Band.SATURDAY

1.45 Just Jazz; 2.30 Strictly Instrumen-tal; 3.15 Dance Music; 4.45 World ofJazz; 6 Record Programme.

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CLUBS -TRADITIONALALBEMARLE JAZZ BAND.

Wednesday. " White Hart,"Southall. Buses 105, 83, 120,607.

BRENTWOOD RHYTHMCLUB. Tuesday. " Lion andLamb " Hotel. GEOFF KEMP'SJAZZ BAND (formerly LonnieDonegan).

CATFORD JAZZ CLUB, Fri-days, 7.30 p.m. Mike Daniels,listen or dance. SUNDAYS. 7p.m.: " Jazz Interlude," MikeDaniels, Neva Raphaello, FredHunt, weekly guest spot.

CHARLIE GALBRAITH andhis Jazzmen. See TRADI-TIONAL " 51."

CLUB CREOLE. Every Sun-day, 7.30 till 10.30 p.m.: BOBBYMICKLEBURGH'S BOBCATS.Admission (members) 3s. - 44Gerrard Street.

CLUB FAUBOURG. EveryThursday, 5.30 till 11.30. Sensa-tional new DAVE SHEPHERDQUINTET with JO SEARLE.Admission 3s. Remember Tues-days : MULLIGAN.

CLUB SATCHMO. Sunday, 7p.m. " White Lion," Edgware.CRANE RIVER JAZZBAND.Dancing. Bar. Next : ChristieBrothers' Stompers.

CRANFORD JAZZ CLUB.Every Friday, " White HartHotel," Bath Road, Cranford(Hounslow West Und. Stn.Buses 81. 98 and 222). Homeof Crane River Jazz Band.Members 2s., guests 3s.

DELTA JAZZ CLUB. Satur-days 8 p.m.: Mike DanielsBand.

HUMPHREY LYTTELTONCLUB meets every Wednesday,100 Oxford Street. Details ofclub from 84 Newman Street,W.1. LAN 5861,

JOY'S JAZZ CLUB, 44 Ger-rard Street. Sundays, 3 till 6p.m. Grahame Stewart. GuestsDenny Coffey and other person-alities.

LOCARNO JAZZBAND," Viaduct." Hanwell, Sunday,7 p.m. Dance or listen.

LONDON JAZZ CLUB, Bri-tain's Premier Jazz Rendezvous,100 Oxford Street, London.W.1. Monday / Saturday NightJazz : Christie Brothers Stom-pers. Membership details, 4Earlham Street, W.C.2. TEM1782/3/4.

"RED LION," Sutton. EveryWednesday, BOBBY MICKLE-BURGH and his "BOBCATS."Brand new traditional band.

SOUTHERN JAZZ CLUB.Leytonstone. Fridays 7.30. EricSilk's Southern Jazzband.Valentine 7266.

TRADITIONAL "51." EveryFriday from 8 till 11. 10/11Great Newport Street. ResidentBand : CHARLIE GALBRAITHAND HIS JAZZMEN. London'sgreatest Jazz Club, TRADI-TIONAL " 51.'9

WEST END JAZZ CLUB.Every Friday. 44 GerrardStreet. New Resident Band.MIKE COLLIER'S JAZZMENfeaturing Jo Lennard. Admis-sion 3s.

WOOD GREEN. Sunday.CHRIS BARBER'S BAND.guest Tony Harvey. Tuesday:Wood Green Stompers.

PERSONALBE IN tune with Tito Burns -

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CHARLIE VENTURA can beyour teacher for saxophonejazz. Courses for absolute be-ginners as well as players. Sendtoday for Free Brochure, toWesco School of Music. Ltd(Dept. NME), 7. Arundel Street.W.C.2.

OSCAR MOORE can be yourteacher for guitar jazz. Coursesfor absolute beginners as wellas players. Send today for FreeBrochure, to Wesco School ofMusic. Ltd. (Dent. NME), 7,Arundel Street, W.C.2.

PIANISTS ! The Moderndance pianist's technical advicebureau can help you with thosetechnical problems. - Detailsfrom the Sec., E. Allen. 14 Stan-ley Road. Carshalton, Surrey.

RETIREMENT INCOMEPLAN for musicians. - Detailsfrom the MIMA. 17/23 WigmoreStreet, W.1.

CLUBS -MODERN

ACADEMIC MONDAY?Jimmy Skidmore, Tubby Hayes,Fred Perry, Red Price, JohnnyRogers, Ron Heaseman, LeonRoy, Eddie Taylor, Roy Hatton,Pete Harris, Freddy Harper,Ken Sykora, Len Williams,George Jennings. Danny Hag-gerty, Jimmy Stackhouse, DaveDavani, Ron Fallon. " Prince ofWales' (minute RavenscourtTube).

ACTON BOP CLUB. " WhiteHart." Thursday, by over-whelming demand JIMMYSKIDMORE with the sensa-tional Johnny Alexandergroup !

ANTON PROGRESSIVEALL-STARS Bert Courtley,Matt Ross, Eric Delaney. DonLusher, Jimmy Skidmore. EddieTripp. " White Lion," Edgware.Sunday noon.

" BOP " Sydenham ModernMusic Club, " Fox and Hounds "Ballroom, Kirkdale, Sydenham,S.E.26. Terry Brown, LewRobinson Group. Dancing.Every Thursday.

CLUB ELSINO. " Lord Palm-erston," Staines Road, Houns-low. Thursday : TERRYBROWN, Garry Chevins Sextet.This week : DON RENDELL,MIKE MINSHULL, Bill Gold-ing.

CLUB 15, " Pigeon's Hotel,"Romford Road. Stratford. Sun-day, 7.30: CELESTINO QUAR-TET, Ed Nichols Quintet andguest artists.

FOREST GATE JIVEACADEMY. LEARN TO JIVE.Free -style instruction commen-cing next week every Mondayand Saturday, 8 till 11. 2s. 6d.Private lessons. - 193 EarlhamGrove, E.7 (1 minute Station).MAR 2979.

FROZEN ROBIN'S NEST," White Hart," Hornchurch.Tuesday, 8 p.m.: Tubby Hayesand Pete Bray with KenTurner's Modernists.

"JAZZ AT THE FLAMINGO"(formerly " Jazz at the Maple-ton "), 39 Coventry Street. Pic-cadilly. This Sunday : FROMthe GERALDO ORCHESTRA,The Douggie Robinson / EricDelaney All -Stars. Plus thesensational resident attraction,the Kenny Graham Afro -Cub-ists. WEDNESDAY : AnotherDouble Decker Bill, KENNYGRAHAM AFRO -CUBISTS andRalph Sharon All -Stars.

LEARN TO DANCE JIVE,FREE STYLE instruction Mon-day. Wednesday and Saturday,8 till 11 p.m.. 2s. 6d. SundayAfternoon Club. 3 till 5.30 p.m.,?s. 6d.-Delaney's School forJive, 143, King's Road, Chelsea.S.W.3 (entrance in FloodStreet).

NEW JAZZ SOCIETY nextmeeting October 28.

STAINES -STAINES. " AnneBoleyn." Sunday, 7.45: NormanGeorge, Johnny AlexanderSextet. Jazz, Modern.

STUDIO '51 - STUDIO '5110/11 Great Newport Street,

Leicester Square. W.1.EXCLUSIVE all sessions

Tommy Whittle with the TonyKinsey Trio with your newcompere Bix Curtis.

SAT.: BATTLE OF THETENORS : Jimmy Skidmore,Bob Burns. Tony Crombie, StanWasser, Norman Stenfalt. plusTony Kinsey Trio, TommyWhittle.

SUN.: 2 till 4.30 RECORDCOUNTER. Dancing. Refresh-ments. Members 1s., guestsIs. 6d. TERRIFIC 5 - HOURSESSION, 5.30 till 10.30. 4 Bandattraction NORMAN BURNS'QUINTET. LYON ROY'SMAMBO ORCHESTRA with JoeHarriet, Fred Perry. SamWalker, Al Cornish. H. B. Bux-ton. Ken Powell. etc. TONYKINREY TRIO TOMMYyonaTTLE Surprise guest band.

MON.: 8 till 10.30 RECORDCOUNTER. Dancing. Refresh-ments. Members Is., guestsls. ad.

WED.: JOHNNY DANK -WORTH SEVEN plus RONNIESCOTT, Tony Kinsey Trio.Tommy Whittle.

ZAN-ZEBA. 39 GerrardStreet. W.I. Fridays and Satur-days 12 till 4 a.m. This week :Larry Morgan, Keith Barr. SamWalker. Kenny Nappier. ArchieMack and guest stars. Latest inJazz.

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BOBBY MICKLEBURGHteaches Trumpet and Trom-bone. -Ring TEM 0079 (after-noons).

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SPANISH GUITAR. Poor"eading and indifferent tech-nique will always restrict youractivities. Develop your tech-nique and sight-reading at theSadleir Studio, 30 RathbonePlace. London, W.I. For freeconsultation, call afternoons orRhone for appointment :-Bays-water 6823 (9 a.m. to 11 a.m.):Museum 5286 (1 n.m. to 6 A.m.).

TERRY BROWN for moderntnimpet tuition. -LIB 1562 andGER. 8004.

TROMBONE 'TUITION byGeraldo trombonist DONLUSHER, 32 ChristchurchHouse, Streatham Hill. TUL4210.

NOTIFICATION OFVACANCIES ORDER, 1931

Engagement of persons answer-ing these advertisements mustbe made through the local officeof the Ministry of Labour, orScheduled Employment Agencyif the applicant is a man 18-64inclusive or a woman aged.18-59inclusive unless otherwise ex-cepted from the provisions ofthe Notification of Vacancies

Order. 1952.

SPECIAL NOTICES

CARNIVAL HATS, balloonsnovelties. List free. -E. Clayton,32 Danesleigh Gardens, Leigh -on -Sea.

GERALD() SWING CLUB,Britain's No. 1 Modern MusicClub. Membership 2s. 6d. p.a.-S.a.e. Bert Wilcox. 4 EarlhamStreet, W.C.2. TEM 1762/3/4.

LOANS FOR HOMES. Mort-gage facilities still available.-M.I.M.A-LAN 6941.

LONDON JAZZ RECORDSOCIETY. " Bear and Staff,"Charing Cross Road, tonight:MAY BROTHERS.

THE LESLIE EVANS'Advanced Student Orchestrascommence another season Sun-day, October 26, Mac's, GreatWindmill Street, 10.30 till 1

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MUSIC BUSINESS NEWS AND CHATTER

THEALLEY

CATT_T ELL°, there ! First let me1i ll tell you about a new andwonderful dancin g team.Coming your way in the nearfuture, you'll be enjoying a /fewMGM film entitled " EverythingI Have Is Yours," and myadvice to you is to rememberthe names Marge and GowerChampion.

This pair really are the topsand in addition to their fantas-tib dance routines, can sing asong and make with the play-acting. Also in the film, isblonde vocalist Monica Lewis,who doesn't look half as glam-orous as she did when we metin the MGM studios in NewYork.

Naturally, Alan Holmes, ofRobbins, will be handling themusic, and in addition to therevival of the title song, he'llprobably have quite a successwith " Like Monday FollowsSunday," and " Derry DownDilly." For me, the high spotwas the brilliant " Casablanca "scene. When you see it, I thinkyou'll agree it was money wellspent.

* * *If there's one programme

during the week that I do makea point of not missing, it's theAnne Shelton and Alfred Marks" Double Top" show. This isreally tops by all standards.

* * *Was present ,at, the first

session of new Columbia A. andR. men Ray Martin and NorrieParamor. If this a sample oftheir work, then the future cer-tainly looks most bright.

I've a hunch that the finishedproduct, Tony Brent avecchorus and orchestra playingand singing " Any Old Time " isgoing to be riding high on thelist of your favourites in a veryshort space of time.

* *Incidentally, I notice on look-

ing through the " Radio Times "that they now seem to have atlong last thrown in the towelto Luxembourg regarding pro-grammes on a Sunday evening.What listeners now looking forbright entertainment will hon-estly turn to the BBC wave-lengths when they can so easilyenjoy AFN and Luxembourg?Bad show, BBC !

* * *I had the pleasure of a visit

from one of the most wonderfulmen I know, during the pastweek. His name is Nat Travers,and my older readers will knowhim as the king of all cockneycomedians. His age is 77, but ifI had half his energy andvitality, I'd be very pleased.

ITO'S ttfll appearing regularlyon the halls, and next week ifyou want to go and admire thisfantastic character you may doso nightly at the GranvilleTheatre, Walham Green.

He's also, of course, thefamous songwriter of such songsas " She Was a Sweet LittleDicky Bird " and " Why Did ILeave My Little Back Room? "

It was both a privilegeand a pleasure to meet NatTravers, the man who can stillshow you the hindouts with hisname appearing on the samebill as the great Dan Leno, in1903!

" Blue Tango " is in the newsthis week both in Londonand New York. (Above) :Milton Rackmil (presidentof American Decca) handsLeroy Anderson (centre) agold record to celebrate thesale of the millionth platterof the hit -tune. PublisherJack Mills, on the left of thetop picture, is also seen inthe London presentationceremony (below) whereRay Martin receives a re-cord -trophy on the sale ofthe 250,000th copy of his ownrecord of " Blue Tango."Harry Ralton (ManagingDirector of Mills Musichere) is on right, and ex-ploitation -manager C y r i lShane is on extreme left.

Plaudits for Joe Baker, Jnr.,who has been happily associatedwith Derek Roy for the pastyear as his right-hand man,when he stepped in at amoment's notice at ShepherdsBush last week, and took overall the comedy parts for Derek,when the comedian went downwith laryngitis.

* * *Remember I told you about

Joyce Berry, wife of pluggerRoy, who fins been signed to anexclusive contract with Colum-bia? Her name has been changedto Fraser for recording pur-poses, and for the book, I cantell you that I was present ather first session this week, andthat her first two sides are littleshort of sensational. I've anidea a new star has been born.Just you wait and hear herversions of " I Went To YourWedding " and " Moon OverMalaya."

* * *I can tell you that the next

edition of " Take It From Here "will commence on January 6.

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I hear a very strong whisperthat David Hughes will bestarred in a forthcoming WestEnd production. That boy iscertainly going places - andgood luck to him !

* * *Astoria bandleader Harry

Leader goes to the Regent,Brighton, on October 27, swit-ching with Syd Dean for theweek. Harry's last working visitto Brighton was as a memberof Archie Alexander's band in1928!

*I hear that Gary Miller and

Johnny Brandon are two of the

first signings for the new Philipslabel. Another signing, thistime for a further year's renewalof his contract, is that bytrumpeter Eddie Calvert forColumbia.

* * *News for the fans : You'll be

hearing the enterprising JimmyWalker Quintet on Thursday,October 30 at 12.15 p.m.Another group to be heard willbe the fine Freddy Randall bandon November 1, and Sid Phillipson two successive Sundays,October 19 and 26.

* * *Quite a surprise to hear Eve

Boswell guesting on Geraldo's" Tip Top Tunes " with "HereIn My Heart " last week. Inci-dentally, if you look back atyour old editions of NME you'llsee in that of September 19, Itipped off the agents to sign upthis fine singer for a residentseason at Blackpool.

Pardon me if I seem a littlecocky, as I hear that the GeorgeBlack office have duly done sofor next year.

* * *Did you hear Harry Richman

in " In Town Tonight " lastSaturday? If the announcerhadn't told us earlier, I'd havesworn it was Jimmy Dyrenforthspeaking.

* * *I don't know if it's pure coin-

cidence, but since the advent ofthe Show Band, the standardof the other ibroadcasting bandsseems to have improved beyondall recognition.

Bands like Heath, Gerald()

and Parnell we already knowabout, but in addition, therehave been really fine airings byTeddy Foster, Oscar Rabin andSydney Lipton within the pastfew days.

* * *YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

You record bvers are in for avery big shock. I won't say moreexcept to tell you that thereason will be " Who Knows "by the new Issy Bonn. Don'tsay your Alley Cat didn't putyou wise about this forthcomingsurprise !

* * *It looks as though Johnny

Johnston has done it again. Notcontent with publishing thephenomenal s u c c es s " TheHoming Waltz," he's now comeup with another of his composi-tions that again looks as thoughit's destined for top honours, sokeep your eye onia."Forget MeNot." It's already been re-corded by Ronnie Ronalde(Col.), Five Smith Bros. (Parl.),Vera Lynn (Decca) and JoeLoss (HMV).

* * *Having written about the fine

violin technique of NorthernVariety Orchestra, leader Nor-man George, I'm pleased tohear that he will now be feat-ured every third week in" Variety Fanfare," accom-panied by the Littlewoods Girls'Choir, starting October 31. He

tells me that this is a new idea,and from what I know already,I've a hunch it will come off.

* * *Welcome return to Mervyn

Saunders after his Korea trip,when he airs in a new " BandCall " series commencing at theend of this month.

* * *I hear that in consequence of

the great success achievedearlier in the year by the leeterYorke Orchestra at the FestivalHall, agent Harry Dawson willbe presenting the aggregationyet again on December 13, withguest artists Stargazers, HarryDawson, and British accordionchampion Gwenda Wilkin, atthe same venue.

Incidentally writing of singerHarry Dawson, reminds me thatI had the pleasure of watchinghim in his new variety act atEastbourne, which he calls " TheFamily Favourite," and thoughtit a great success,

* * *The trio that seems to be

making quite a hit around townis the George Weedon Trio. Isaw these boys on TV last weekand was most impressed. Pitysomeone doesn't take' them inhand, as I feel they could cer-tainly be a valuable addition toour musical scene.

* * *Vera Lynn has taken a luxury

cottage at Ditchling, Sussexand tells me she is hankeringfor a rest after years of con-tinuous day -after -day singing,.

Can it be that Britain'sgreatest songbird contemplatesretirement ?

MUSICCHARTS

As a service to our readerswe have arranged with "TheBillboard," the U.S. show tradepaper, to reproduce its MusicPopularity Charts.

RECORDS MOST PLAYEDBY DISC JOCKEYS

Last ThisWeek1 1 You Belong To Me-J. Stafford2 2 Went To Your Wedding-P.

Page3 3 Wish You Were Here-E. Fisher4 4 You Belong To Me-P. Page7 5 I Should Care-R. Flanagan

11 6 Glow Worm-Mills Bros.5 7 Jambalaya-J. Stafford8 8 Half As Much-R. Clooney6 9 Meet Mr. Callaghan-L. Paul

10 10 Somewhere Along/Way-N. Cole4 11 High Noon-F. Laine

22 12 Lady of Spain-E. Fisher13 13 Trying-Hilltonners22 14 Mademoiselle-E. Howard29 15 Doodletown Fifers - Sauter -

Finegan29 16 You Belong To Me-D. Martin27 17 Blues In The Night-R. Clooney20 18 Feet Up-G. Mitchell

9 19 Auf Wiedersehn-V. Lynn- 20 Comes Along A Love-K. Starr- 20 Marilyn-R. Anthony15 22 Ant Wiedersehn-E. Howard22 23 You'll Never Get Away - T.

Brewer-D. Cornell23 Went To Your Wedding-S.

Gibson- 25 Outside of Heaven-E. Fisher

BEST SELLING POPSINGLES

Last ThisWeek1 1 You Belong To Me-J. Stafford2 2 Went To Your Wedding-P.

Page3 3 Wish You Were Here-E. Fisher4 4 Jambalaya-J. Stafford6 5 Meet Mr. Callaghan-L. Paul5 6 High Noon-F. Laine7 6 Half As Much-R. Clooney

9 8 Trying-HilltoPners10 9 You Belong To Me-P. Page11 10 Glow Worm-Mills Bros.14 11 Lady of Spain-E. Fisher15 12 High Noon-T. Ritter

8 13 Auf Wiedersehn-V. Lynn19 13 It's In The Book-J. Standle12- 15 Somewhere --Al . Cole13 16 Indian Love Call-S. Whitman20 17 Outside of Heaven-E. Fisher13 18 You Belong To Me-D. Martin24 19 Because You're Mine-M. Lanza16 20 Meet Mr. Callaghan-H. Grove17 21 Because You're Mine-N. Cole26 21 Takes Two To Tango-P. Bailey21 23 Botch-A-Me-R. Clooney21 24 Walkin' To Missouri-S. Kaye- 25 Ruby and the Pearl-N. Cole

BEST SELLING SHEETMUSIC

Last ThisWeek1 1 You Belong To Me3 2 Wish You Were Here2 3 Auf Wiedersehn4 4 Halt as Much5 5 I Went To Your Wedding7 5 Jambalaya6 7 Somewhere Along The Way

10 8 Meet Mr. Callaghan9 9 High Noon8 10 Walkin' My Baby Back Home

11 11 Blue Tango12 12 Zing A Little Zone14 13 Because You're Mine13 14 Walkin' To Missouri- 15 Botch -A -Me

TOP TUNES IN BRITAINLast ThisWeek1 1 Homing Waltz3 2 Here In My Heart2 3 High Noon5 4 Auf Weidersehn4 5 Blue Tango7 69 7

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